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?

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

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

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

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.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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.

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

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Information is not knowledge.

I hardly went to school.

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

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.

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 was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

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

Only the educated are free.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

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.