Quotes about Education

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.

If I am through learning, I am through.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden

I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.

Drink deeply from good books.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday

No written word nor spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves.

you should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.