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

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

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

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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

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.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

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

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

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

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

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.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Knowledge is power.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

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.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

‚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.

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.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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

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

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

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.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

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.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

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

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.

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

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

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

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.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

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!

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