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

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

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

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

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

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.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘

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

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.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

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

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

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

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

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

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.