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.

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.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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.

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

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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

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.

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

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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

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 went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

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.

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

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

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

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

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

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Empire and liberty.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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

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

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

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

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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!

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.