If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

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

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.

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.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

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.

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.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

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

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

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.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

For me, education was power.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I’ve learned never to say never.

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

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

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!‘

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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.

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

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

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

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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.