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.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

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.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

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

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

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

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.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

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.

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

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

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.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

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

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Empire and liberty.

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

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

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

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

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.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

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.

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.