I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
When I was 35, all of a sudden I thought maybe it'd be nice to knit a sweater.
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.
It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.
You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
I only halfway paid attention in high school Spanish class, and it may be too late now to catch up, no matter how many levels of Rosetta Stone I order.
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
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.
I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I didn't read a lot of the seminal writers. Then I had two teenage daughters and was reading books on development and different issues.
George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” “Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,” said George lightly.
The information age is first and foremost an education age in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime.
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
The majority of my time working is with adults, so I have 'experience' without experiencing it.
I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.
You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.
I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.
Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
I had to train myself to like spicy foods as I got older because they weren't a part of my upbringing at all.
I learned English in a pub. I didn't learn it in school.
