If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

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

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

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.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

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.

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

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.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

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

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

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.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

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.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

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.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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

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.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

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.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

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

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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.

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

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.

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.

Knowledge is power.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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 function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.