You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

‚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 Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

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.

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

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

The doer alone learneth.

When in doubt, don’t.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

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

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

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

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Knowledge is power.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.