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

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.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

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

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

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

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.

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.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

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

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.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

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.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

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.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

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

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

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

I’ve learned never to say never.

Nature hates calculators.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

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

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.