By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

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

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

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 mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

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.

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

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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.

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

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

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.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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

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

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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

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.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

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