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.

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

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I need physics more than friends.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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.

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

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Information is not knowledge.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

There is no education like adversity.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

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

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

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.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

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

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Nature has always had more force than education.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Common Core is a big win for education.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

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

One of the amazing things about ‚Seven Samurai‘ is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you’ve got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

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

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

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.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

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.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Education is the best provision for old age.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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