On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

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.

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

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

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.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I hardly went to school.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

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

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

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

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 ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

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

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

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

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.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

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

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.