One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

‚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 Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

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

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

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.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

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 direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

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

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

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

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

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.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

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

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The best teacher is very interactive.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

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

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.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

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.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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!‘

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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.

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.

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

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

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.