I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

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.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

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

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

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.

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

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

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

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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

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

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

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.

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

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

You shouldn’t have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

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.

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

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.