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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

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.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

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.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

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.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

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

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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.

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

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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.

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

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

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

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

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

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

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

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.

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

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

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The best teacher is very interactive.

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.

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

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.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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

There is no education like adversity.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

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.

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

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

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

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

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.