Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

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.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

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.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.