Charles Handy Quotes

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

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things -- discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

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.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

School is a foretaste of life.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Always educate yourself.

I've thought about going back to school.

This life is a process of learning.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.