I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

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

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

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.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

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

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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.

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

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

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

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

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

For me, education was power.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

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

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

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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

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

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

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

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

I’m not really book-smart.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

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

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!‘

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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.

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

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.