Lynn Barber Quotes

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

I have learnt a lot from Praveen Kumar.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

The value of a good education has never left me.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

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

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

For me, education was power.

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

Television was essentially my college.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.