It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

Information is not knowledge.

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.

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?

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I like school and I like learning.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Only the educated are free.

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

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

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

I always love going on a safari drive whenever I visit Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in South Africa. I’ve been fortunate to see so many incredible animals over the years, and each time, it’s completely different. Following Ulusaba’s pack of wild dogs is my highlight.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

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

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

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.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

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

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

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.

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.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

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.

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

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.