In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

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

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.‘

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

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.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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

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

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

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

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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