Lifelong Learning quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

Libraries raised me.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

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.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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

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

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.

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