Education is important because it prepares you for life.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

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

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.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

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

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

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.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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.

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I hardly went to school.

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

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.