I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

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

America is the greatest country in the world.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

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

Knowledge is power.

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.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

The future of American film lies on television.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

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

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

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

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

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

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.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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

Libraries raised me.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

I hardly went to school.

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

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

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.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

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

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

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.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.