Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

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.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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!

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

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

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

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 was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

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?

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

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.

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.