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

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

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

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?

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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.

Only the educated are free.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

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

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.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

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

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

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

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

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

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

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

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.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

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?

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

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

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

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.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.