A teacher should have a creative mind.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

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

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

Education is the best provision for old age.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

I like school and I like learning.

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.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

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

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

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 proper study of mankind is books.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

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 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.

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.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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!‘

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

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

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.