Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.