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

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.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

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

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

I need physics more than friends.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

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

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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

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

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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