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.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Nature has always had more force than education.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

There is no education like adversity.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

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.

I like school and I like learning.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

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

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

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

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

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.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

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

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

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.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.