Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

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.

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

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

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

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.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

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

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.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

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.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

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

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

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

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

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

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

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

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.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

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.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The best teacher is very interactive.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.