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

You cannot open a book without learning something.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Change in all things is sweet.

Only the educated are free.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

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

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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.

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

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

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

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

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

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.‘

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

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 roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

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

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

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

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.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

For me, education was power.

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.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

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

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

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.

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

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

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

The true university of these days is a collection of books.