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’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Education is what you learn after you leave 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.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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.

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.

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

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Nature has always had more force than education.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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.

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.

I need physics more than friends.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

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?

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.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

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.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

For me, education was power.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

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

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Information is not knowledge.

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.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

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

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

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

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

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

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

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.

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.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.