Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

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

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.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I don’t race cars.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

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.

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

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

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

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.