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.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

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

For me, education was power.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

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

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

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

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

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.

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.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

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.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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

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

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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.

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

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.

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.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Libraries raised me.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

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

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I teach children to be winners.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

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.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.