In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

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

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I need physics more than friends.

Information is not knowledge.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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

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.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Only the educated are free.

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.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

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

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

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.

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

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

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

There is no education like adversity.

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.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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 cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.