Lifelong Education Quotes & Sayings

Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous. — Hans Kung

[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing. — Sonia Sotomayor

I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades. — Alfie Kohn

Can you imagine a world without books to read? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough ... the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. — John Adams

The path of light is quest for knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. — Socrates

I am still young to keep learning. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can learn at any age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Read a short story every day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn. — Gordon B. Hinckley

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
[Kung Fu Monkey
Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009] — John Rogers

I live within the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn. — Joichi Ito

The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice. — Aletheia Luna

I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The education of a man is never completed until he dies. — Robert E.Lee

There are many more books to read, when will I finish reading? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education. — Dhaval Gajera

I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning. — Ken Wyatt

Reading is a beautiful paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't. — Sean Covey

Ancient literature is a rich history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-education is lifelong curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's the difference between utility and virtue. Many policy makers now think of education in functional terms. It's about learning skills that will help students find employment - such as using a word processor or spreadsheet. Yet what about helping people to figure out the meaning of life? Or become good people? Or make a difference to others? Is education for a stage in life, completed once we find jobs, or should it be a lifelong pursuit? — Alister E. McGrath

the biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education. — Donald J. Trump

The world of books is heavenly paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Read to find life treasures — Lailah Gifty Akita

We travel to ancient times by reading history books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Where you are no is the reflection of your lifelong thoughts and actions. — Debasish Mridha

Make life as a lifelong love affair with yourself. — Debasish Mridha

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject. — William Zinsser

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise. — Robert H. Jackson

You are never old to begin self-seeking. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom. — John Ferling

I live in paradise within the pages of a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to research on the originality of any information. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov

Learning has no end until the day of death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is a sacred gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish to keep reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher. — George Whitman

New adventures enrich one's life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a lifelong learner. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We encounter great souls by reading great books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All I have learned, I learned from books. — Abraham Lincoln

We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners. — Lily Eskelsen Garcia

Knowledge is curiosity to know more. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation. — John F. Kennedy

Reading is my breath. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows. — John Paul Caponigro

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education. — Debasish Mridha

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What will my world be without books? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Education leads to intellectual life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we read, the more we discover. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators. They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students. — Ken Robinson

It is only by giving our very best to the present; we will uphold the timeless future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work? — Brad Gooch

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process. — Gloria Steinem

True Witchcraft is a path of lifelong self-education.
NOT initiation. — Dacha Avelin

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. — William Haley

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations. — Tim Blake Nelson

Passion for books is the desire to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Explore the endless possibilities in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to learn as best as you can. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The world of books is a heavenly paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I realized my predicament early in my First Year. We don't say "Freshman" or "Senior" etc. at UVA because Mr. Jefferson felt that education is a lifelong process — Tina Fey

Knowledge is intellectual art. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole. — Ben Bernanke

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For too long some of our schools have taught too many subjects as subsets of dogmatic commitments ... Too often, education made our students less flexible- confident to the point of arrogance that they now had all the answers- rather than more flexible- humble in their lifelong openness to new questions and new responses. An important goal of quality education is to equip each generation to participate effectively in what has been called 'the great conversation' of our times. This means, on one hand, being unafraid of controversy. But, on the other hand, it also means being sensitive to the values and outlooks of others. — His Highness The Aga Khan

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. — Julia Child

Education is lifelong learning adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But when I roamed New York City, knowing so much and capable of speaking so nicely, and yet so lonely, and often hungry and cold, I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered was a lifelong membership in a respected artificial extended family. — Kurt Vonnegut

Literature is a sacred knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love to read for my pleasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Three great actions; explore, experiment and experience. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am determined to be intelligent. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why don't you dare the impossible? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-confidence and self-seeking are the greatest virtues. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. — Michel Legrand

Reading is a pleasurable paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don't have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. — Carol S. Dweck

Find the willpower to begin work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am determined to be a lifelong learner. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel. — Jim Stovall

I will keep reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we read, the better we are informed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books always attract my attention. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. — Henry Ford