Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

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.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

For me, education was power.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

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

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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!‘

Common Core is a big win for education.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I like school and I like learning.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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.

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

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.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I give the children education.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.