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

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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.

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?

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

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

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.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

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

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

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.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

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

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

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

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

No great thing is created suddenly.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

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.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

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.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

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.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.