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.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

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.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Music is in my DNA!

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

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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 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.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

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

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

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

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.

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

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

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.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

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

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

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

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

The proper study of mankind is books.