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.‘

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

What is true belongs to me!

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.

I go down the street, people see me: ‚Hey, I pity-‚ right on, man, that’s a compliment to me.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

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

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

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.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

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

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

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 should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

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.

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.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

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

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

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

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

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