Quotes about Education
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.
— John Wooden
If I am through learning, I am through.
— John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden
— John Wooden
I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.
— John Wooden
Drink deeply from good books.
— John Wooden
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
— John Wooden
No written word nor spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves.
— John Wooden
you should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
— John Wooden
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
— Brigham Young
The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
— Seth Godin
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
— Martin Luther
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
— Herman Melville