Charles William Eliot Quotes

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a lick or two. Little by little, I put it together.

I started a nonprofit called The Pegasus Fund, and we take top-performing students from underserved communities, and we commit to sending them for three summers to a nonacademic, holistic summer camp as a means to help them acclimate socially, geographically, spiritually to pilot secondary schools that they hope to attend.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

My mom and dad decided to homeschool us - I'm one of eight - because they really wanted us to be outside and learn some other fundamentals instead of it being school all day in a classroom.

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

Sports will equip kids with the necessary tools to face academic challenges, and provide all-round development.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

The main objective for me personally is to create something where kids can come and take advantage of all the good things that football can give you, in every way, not just from a technical point of view, but all the social values that come with it as well.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.