It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

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.

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

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

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.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

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?

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

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

The best teacher is very interactive.

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

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

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.

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.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

For me, education was power.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

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.

‚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.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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.

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

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

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.

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

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?

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

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