“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder an…”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.comTagged: Education, Reading, College, Learning
“If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status”— Criss Jami, amazon.comTagged: College, Education, Power, status
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”— Robert T. Kiyosaki, amazon.comTagged: College, Mistakes, Learning
“The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.”— Donalyn Miller, amazon.comTagged: Education, College
“In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.”— Bill Bryson, amazon.comTagged: university, Sex, College
“You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”— Michael Dell, books.google.comTagged: College, Dreams, Success
“The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”— Shia LaBeouf, amazon.comTagged: College, Success, preparation
“I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.”— Kent McCord, books.google.comTagged: College, college major
“If you feel that you have both feet planted on solid ground, then the university has failed you.”— Robert Gohen, books.google.comTagged: College, university
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”— Frank Zappa, books.google.comTagged: College, library, Reading
“College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?”— David Wood, books.google.comTagged: College, Drinking, university
“College is a great experience and exposes you to a lot of things you might not otherwise learn or experience. You learn to evaluate things, think for yourself, and become a more independent person. Even if you decide not to use your specific degree, college can never be a waste of money if you get s…”— Steven D. Woodhull, quotegarden.comTagged: College, degree, university
“I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.”— Agnes DeMille, amazon.comTagged: College, Reading, Learning
“Just like a boxer can’t win without a few punches on his face, a student can’t be fully trained without ups and downs.”— Pawan Mishra, amazon.comTagged: College, student, university, studying
“Well, tests ain't fair. Those that study have an unfair advantage. It's always been that way.”— Allan Dare Pearce, amazon.comTagged: College, tests, studying
“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.comTagged: Education, Sex, College
“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and ‘success’, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”— Chris Hedges, amazon.comTagged: Success, Education, Challenges
“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”— Bill Watterson, amazon.comTagged: School, College, Learning
“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.comTagged: Education, eastern, western