College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

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

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.

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.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

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

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

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

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

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

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

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

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.

I hardly went to school.

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.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

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.

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!‘

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

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

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

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

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

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.

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.

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.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

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.