Education Quotes
As I am looking for things to put together for this website, I’m trying to decide how often to post and what is of most worth to put on here. Part of my sabbatical proposal is that I would keep a blog or journal of what I would be doing and experiencing. Plus, keeping a journal is cool. Years down the road I will be reading this or others that care could read about this and know what it was like. With this in mind, I’m going to refrain from posting pretty much anything that is trivial or superfluous. — Of course I got up in the morning to check my email messages and went to class, worked on my project(s) late at night sometime during my leave. We’ll leave that part of my leave alone.
But that won’t stop me from putting things on here that I think about from time to time. After visiting some web resources I thought about putting a post that reflected some of my feelings about education in general from some great thinkers:
These are all from or attributed to Albert Einstein:
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
This one is by Henry L. Doherty:
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. “
I actually like that one because in a class once I had to introduce myself as having been a college student for most of my adult life. Some might think that being in school is a waste of time, (and it can be if you don’t learn to apply what you are taught in school) but I am a self-proclaimed life-long learner. That doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll be in school forever, but I do hope that I can remain teachable well into my later years.
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