Educational Journey Quotes

If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.

The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.

The way is in training.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.

Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

I had a normal upbringing, studied in Chaitanya Vidyalaya till class VIII, went to Australia for two years, returned and did my Inter at Oakridge. I wasn't inclined towards academics. I barely scraped through.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.