Robert Sternberg Quotes

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

Education is equally important in one's life.

I went to university - I never would have gone to university through football. I've got a degree. I've got a master's. I've met some amazing people, I've lived my dream. I've picked up so many skill sets that I never would have.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

If it weren't for my education, I truly wouldn't be as successful at my job as a model.

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.

We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons