That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

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

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

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

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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.

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

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

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.

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

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

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.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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

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.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

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.

I give the children education.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Education is the best provision for old age.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.