Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

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.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

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

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The best teacher is very interactive.

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

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Information is not knowledge.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

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

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

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

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.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

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.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.