Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Information is not knowledge.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

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.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

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.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

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

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.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

I’m not really book-smart.

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

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

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

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

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

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

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

I am such a political person.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

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.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I think it’s important to vote.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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.‘

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.