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.

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

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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

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.

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

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

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.

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.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

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.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

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

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

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

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

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

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.

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

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.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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