Quotes about Education

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and setled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.