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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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.

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.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

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.

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

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

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

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.

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.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.