Ed Parker Quotes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

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

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Seek education from the cradle to the grave.

It doesn't matter what stage of your life you're in, learning never stops. I'm a huge believer in that.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

I love to learn new things, even though I might not master it. That takes a lot of time.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.