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

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

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

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

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

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

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

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

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

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

I’m not really book-smart.

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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

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 proper study of mankind is books.

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

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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

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

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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.

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

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

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