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.

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.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

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

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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.

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!

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Information is not knowledge.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

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.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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

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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

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

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

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

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

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.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

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.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

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.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.