If You Think Education Is Expensive, Wait Until You See How Much Ignorance Costs in the 21st Century.
An earlier variant of this quotation was made by the Harvard University President, Derek Bok {634685}.
To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
My family has always valued my education.
A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart.
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.
...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.
The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and exploring the whole pop or classical canon, were just as important as algebra or biology. Music is such a visceral and tactile experience for a kid, and to just replace that with video games or something that doesn't have the same sort of physical impact would definitely be a poor choice, and have a negative impact.
I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.
Education will become the coin of the realm.
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.
Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.
It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.
Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
Education has always been of significant importance to me and my family.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.