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.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

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

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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.

Information is not knowledge.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I’m not really book-smart.

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.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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!‘

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

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.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

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

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

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

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

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.