Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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.

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

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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

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.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

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.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

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

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Only the educated are free.

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.

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

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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

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.

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

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.

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

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.