I’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

Libraries raised me.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

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

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

I feel it’s my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Nobody’s indispensable.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

It’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow’s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Leadership is influence.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.