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

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

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

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

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

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

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.

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

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

The best teacher is very interactive.

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

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

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Education is the best provision for old age.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

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.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Solutions are not the answer.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.