Rakim Quotes

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Always educate yourself.

I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

How priceless is a liberal education ! In itself what a rich endowment ! It is not impaired by age, but its value increases with use. No one can employ it but its rightful owner. He alone can illustrate its worth and enjoy its rewards. It cannot be inherited or purchased. It must be acquired by individual effort. It can be secured only by perseverance and self-denial.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.

You always need to be curious and study.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

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.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Education has for its object the formation of character.