Professional Education Quotes

#1. There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

John Stuart Mill

#2. The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

Betty Hart

#4. A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Anna Seward

#5. Most *educated* people would rather be called *professional* than be said to be *humane.*

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. Professional learning does not advance ... through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

Douglass B. Reeves

#7. I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.

Eddie George

#8. I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.

David Batstone

#9. Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

Robert M. Hutchins

#10. Many students go through "imposter syndrome" as they try to assimilate into a professional culture.

Claude M. Steele

#11. America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

#12. An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

Allan Bloom

#13. The best part of learning is sharing what you know.

Vaughn K. Lauer

#14. My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

Robert B. Laughlin

#15. From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

Tom Chatfield

#16. It's never either-or, never enjoyment versus advancement, so long as you conceive of advancement in terms of learning rather than climbing to the next rung of the professional ladder. You are getting ahead if you learn, even if you wind up staying on the same rung.

Chris Hadfield

#17. All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal ... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

John Lydon

#18. I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#19. The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

Noam Chomsky

#20. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

Jasmin Darznik

#21. Since I can't be a professional on account of lack of education I wouldn't mind being wealthy.

Bernard Malamud

#22. Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#23. When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

Michael Joseph Brown

#24. From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

Zainab Salbi