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

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.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

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

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

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.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

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

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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

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.

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.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

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

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.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

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.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

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

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

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.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

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

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

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

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

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

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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