So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

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

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 hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

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.

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 like school and I like learning.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

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.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

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

I’m not really book-smart.

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

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

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

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

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.

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

I hardly went to school.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

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.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

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.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

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.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

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.

Libraries raised me.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.