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

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.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

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.‘

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

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

A teacher should have a creative mind.

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.

The best teacher is very interactive.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I give the children education.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

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.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

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.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

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

Nature has always had more force than education.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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?

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

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

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

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!

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

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

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

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.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

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.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I’m not really book-smart.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.