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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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.

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.

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.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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.

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.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

I’m not really book-smart.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

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.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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.

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

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.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

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.

Libraries raised me.

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

For me, education was power.

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.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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

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

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!‘

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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

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.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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

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.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

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

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

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.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

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