Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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?

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Sexism is real in this country.

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

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

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

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

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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.

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

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

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 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.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

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.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

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

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

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.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.