The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Libraries raised me.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I need physics more than friends.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

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

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

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.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

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.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

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 giving of love is an education in itself.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do 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.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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.

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

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

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.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

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

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

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

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

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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!‘

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.