I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

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.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

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

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

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.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

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.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Nothing recedes like progress.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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.

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