Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

I teach children to be winners.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Research is creating new knowledge.

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

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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

For me, education was power.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I’m not really book-smart.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Libraries raised me.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

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

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

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

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.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I hardly went to school.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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

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

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.

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.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

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!

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.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

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

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

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

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.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.