Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

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

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

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.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

The value of a good education has never left me.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.