In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

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.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

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.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

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

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

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

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

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

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.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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.

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

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

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

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

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

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

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

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.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.