I hardly went to school.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

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

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

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.

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

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

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.

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

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

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

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

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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

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

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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

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

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.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

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’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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

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