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

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

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.

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.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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

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

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

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

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

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

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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

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

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.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

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

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

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