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.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

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.

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

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

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

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

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

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

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

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

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

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

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

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

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.

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

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

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.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

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 perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

I always wanted a family.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

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.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.