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

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

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

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

For me, education was power.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

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

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.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

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.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

They know enough who know how to learn.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

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

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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.

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I’d read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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

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.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

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

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

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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

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

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.

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.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

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

I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

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.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

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.

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