I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‚Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.‘

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

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

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn’t have an eventful childhood.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

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

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

I need physics more than friends.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

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.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I teach children to be winners.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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.

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.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

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

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

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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