Andy Partridge Quotes

I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.

If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

I've always loved being a student.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Education made us what we are.

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

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

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.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would never want my kids to leave school, though, I'm really for education.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.