So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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 didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

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.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

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!

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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

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

I need physics more than friends.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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.

The best teacher is very interactive.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

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.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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.

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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

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.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

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

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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

For me, education was power.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

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

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.