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.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

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

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

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.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

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.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

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.

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.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

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

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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

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.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

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

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.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

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

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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