I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

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

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.

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

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

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

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Look, the American people are smart.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

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.

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.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

For me, education was power.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

I hardly went to school.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

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 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.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

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

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

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

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.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Let the path be open to talent.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

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.

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

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

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