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.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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

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’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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.

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

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

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

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

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.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

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

Power is competence.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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.

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

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Nature has always had more force than education.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.