The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

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

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 have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

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

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.