This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

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.

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

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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 had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

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.

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.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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

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

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

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.

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

‚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.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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

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

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.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

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 wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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.