Toyah Willcox Quotes

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

When there's training, I will focus only on training.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

I didn't study; I live.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

Conversion brings a drive to learn.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

The more education you do, the less you are capable of doing.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

Learning essential stuff is as much a discipline as going to the gym or sticking to a diet, and an excellent antidote for the modern condition of being numb and dumb.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

Nothing can come in the way of my studies. That's top priority.

Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.