Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

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

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

For me, education was power.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I need physics more than friends.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.