I like school and I like learning.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

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.

I give the children education.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

I teach children to be winners.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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.

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.

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.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

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.