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 levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

When a family film is done well, there’s a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

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.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

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

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

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 didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

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.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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

Action is character.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.