There is no education like adversity.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field!
As a community college professor for over twenty years, I’ve seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances, they show up. They work hard. They believe anything is possible.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
All of life is a constant education.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.
The function of this school is custodial. Its here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.
Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.
We seldom suffer from taking our subject of study too seriously, but we usually suffer when we take ourselves too seriously.
I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.
