A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

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.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I’m not really book-smart.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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!

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There’s no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

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

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.