I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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.

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

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.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

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

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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

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.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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

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.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Nature has always had more force than education.

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.

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

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

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

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

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.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I teach children to be winners.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

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.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

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.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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

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.

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

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

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.‘

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.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.