My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

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

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

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

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

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.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

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

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

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don’t like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

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.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

The best teacher is very interactive.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

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.

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.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

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!

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!‘

My mother insisted that her children read.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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