I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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 always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

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

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

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

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.

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

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

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.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

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.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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

Nature has always had more force than education.

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

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

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

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.

Some day I shall be President.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.