Quotes About Learning

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!

"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."

Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.