Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.

Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.

I think you can go to school at any age.

There is no time to cease learning. Only after you have closed the lid on the coffin does learning cease.

We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.

I am a serial class taker. I take classes for anything and everything!

Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.

The future of work consists of learning a living.

I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.