If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

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

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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.

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

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

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.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I need physics more than friends.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

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

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.

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.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

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

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

Only the educated are free.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

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.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

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

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.