Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Education is equally important in one's life.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

School is a foretaste of life.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.