Quotes about Education

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training or education have you had that enables you to listen so that you really, deeply understand another human being from that individual's own frame of reference?

You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

I am not suggesting that elements of the Personality Ethic—personality growth, communication skill training, and education in the field of influence strategies and positive thinking—are not beneficial, in fact sometimes essential for success. I believe they are. But these are secondary, not primary traits.

To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Unlike their real-world counterparts, most of the OASIS public school teachers seemed to genuinely enjoy their job