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

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.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

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.

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

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

There is no education like adversity.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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.

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

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

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.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

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

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

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

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

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

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

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Nature has always had more force than education.

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.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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

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

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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

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

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

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

Information is not knowledge.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I give the children education.