Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

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.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

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.

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

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

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.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

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.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

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

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

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.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

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.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

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.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

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?

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.