I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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

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.

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.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Knowledge is power.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

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

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.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

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.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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.

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

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

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 have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

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.

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.

Libraries raised me.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

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

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

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn’t my environment.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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

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

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.