Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

I have no patience for wasting time.

You want to do everything you can so your child has every tool to succeed.

It is good for kids to learn how to work.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.