In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

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.

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.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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?

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

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

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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

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.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

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

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

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.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

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

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.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

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.

I like school and I like learning.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

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.

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.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.