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

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Nature has always had more force than education.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

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

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

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

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

Libraries raised me.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

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

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

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

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.