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.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

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.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

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.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

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

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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 teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.