Common Core is a big win for education.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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

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

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.

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

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

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?

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

God created man, but I could do better.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Nothing recedes like progress.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

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.

Information is not knowledge.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

They know enough who know how to learn.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.