Quotes About Life skills

I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra

I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

I think... part of life skills is also socialising... I think many people make the mistake of not going out... You can spend a little bit too much time with your nose in your book or with your fingers on a keyboard, and you miss out.

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.

It's a life lesson they need to have, a skill everybody needs - to cook.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

Our children learn reading, writing, math, science, and other subjects in school that can help them earn a living. But ver few school programs teach young people how to live - how to deal with anger, how reconcile conflicts, how to breathe, smile, and transform internal formations. There needs to be a revolution in education

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.

Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.

At United, they teach me about things off the pitch as well, how to deal with stuff with your family and how to be a man. That part is very important, not just the football side but off the pitch as well.

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

True confession: My dad wouldn't leave for Haiti until I proved to him that I could change a tire. According to him, that's like the one life skill you must know for human survival. That, and how to fry bacon.

Children aren't being taught to cook or encouraged to try things or told why food is important.

My five years at Virginia truly prepared me for the NBA and for life after the NBA.