Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

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.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

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

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

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.

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.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

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.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

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

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

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.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

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.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

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

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

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?