Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

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.

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

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

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.

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

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I give the children education.

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

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

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.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

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.

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.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

I teach children to be winners.

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.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get 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.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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.

Study men, not historians.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.