We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

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

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

I do not like the human race. I don’t like their heads, I don’t like their faces, I don’t like their feet, I don’t like their conversations, I don’t like their hairdos, I don’t like their automobiles.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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.

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