In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

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

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

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.

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

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.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I teach children to be winners.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

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 give the children education.

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.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

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.

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

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

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

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

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

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

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.

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.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

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.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

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?

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

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

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

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