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.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

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

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.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

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.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

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.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

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

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

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The ‚anti-globalisation movement‘ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

I give the children education.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

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

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Defending peace is the duty of all.