In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

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

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

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

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

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.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

I don’t do research. I never have.

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

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I teach children to be winners.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, ‚We’ve got to evacuate. There’s a hurricane’s coming.‘

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

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

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

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Only the educated are free.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.