Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

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.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

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

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

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.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

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.

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 was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

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 internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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.

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.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

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

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

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

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