Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

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.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

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

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

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

I give the children education.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

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.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

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.

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

For me, education was power.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

I think America has always been polarized.

The proper study of mankind is books.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.