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

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

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

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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

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

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

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

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

The human heart is the same the world over.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

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.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

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

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

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.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

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

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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 ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

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.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

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

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

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!‘