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.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

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

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

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

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.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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.

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 murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

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

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

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.

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

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

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

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

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.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

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

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

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.

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.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

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.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

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

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.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

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

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.