Quotes About Education

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

A leader who is through learning is through.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state.

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.

At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.