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

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

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

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

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.

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 philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

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.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I teach children to be winners.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

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

Information is not knowledge.

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

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

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

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

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?

Only the educated are free.

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.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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.

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

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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.

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.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.