Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

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.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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

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.

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 think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

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

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

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

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.