Education Quotes · Page 533

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

“School’s important at the moment. Unsexiest statement ever.”

— A.S. King

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

— Jane Badler

Life is a cruel teacher. She'll test you first then give you the lesson later.

— Anonymous

“if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.”

— Anonymous

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

— John Ratzenberger

“Life is like a mute tutor: it teaches by showing what we call fate”

— S.E. SEVER

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.

— Tobey Maguire

“Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Every person receives two educations in life; one they receive from others, and; more importantly, the one they give themselves.”

— Charles Macalister

Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she…

— David Brooks

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that…

— Michel de Montaigne

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly…

— Booker T. Washington

Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.

— Jack LaLanne

“Robin had presented him with a fake degree from a university in Athens where the puck had an old acquaintance who still…

— Rob Thurman

“Every day you are the teacher for someone, what are you teaching, choose to influence everyone around you. ~Janiece Rendon Transition Strategist”

— Janiece Rendon

Sometimes the issue is about whether families and communities think girls are even worthy of an education in the first place. It's…

— Michelle Obama

“Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an…

— James M. Lang

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking…

— Bobby Bowden

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour,…

— Sid Waddell

There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE…

— Karan Singh Grover

“If any lesson may be learned from the academic breakthroughs achieved by Pineapple and Jeremy, it is not that we should celebrate…

— Jonathan Kozol

I’ve loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I’m in the best company. I’ve done one West End show before this…

— Rupert Grint

“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about…

— Ian McEwan

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

— Steve Irwin

You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.

— Reese Witherspoon

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.

— Alexandra Trenfor

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

— Caroline Wozniacki

Education is great for some people, but for me it just wasn't.

— Lily Allen

“Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?”

— Idries Shah

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

— John Dewey

I wasn't ready for school as a kid. The only thing I wanted to do was play football.

— Tony Adams

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.

— Bikram Choudhury

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

— Paul Johnson

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

— Robert James Graves

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber

Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

— Nat Hentoff

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

— Howard Gardner

“Be a child of your times! Not knowing is not a shame… - Is one of the teachings of Alevi community.”

— Raj Doctor

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

— Christopher Hampton