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

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

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.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

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

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

I teach children to be winners.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I’m not really book-smart.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

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

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

For me, education was power.

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

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

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

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

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.