It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

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

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

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.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

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.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

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

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

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

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.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

I have a garden in my backyard that’s completely organic, which I’m very proud of.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

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

I like school and I like learning.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.