In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

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

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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

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

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

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.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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.

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.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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?

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

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.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

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

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

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’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

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

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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

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

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

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

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