At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.
Fidel CastroI’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.
Abby Lee MillerHistory has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
Kamala HarrisBecause I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
Jimmy CarterSeeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin DisraeliPersonally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston ChurchillFor 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.
Bill GatesTeachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.
John KennedyEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinThe giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor RooseveltIt is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.
Alice WalkerEducate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas JeffersonI think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
Alice WalkerCrowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
Walt DisneyA child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. KennedyA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
James MadisonMuch learning does not teach understanding.
HeraclitusWe are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
Fidel CastroLet reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham LincolnTo penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas JeffersonIn ‚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.
Robert KiyosakiWhether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.
Michelle ObamaThe most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous HuxleyI would fain grow old learning many things.
PlatoIt was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
Kurt VonnegutYou may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhat I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
C. S. LewisNature has always had more force than education.
VoltaireNo man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert OppenheimerI was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe 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.
Will RogersWe must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
Narendra ModiOur schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
Thomas SowellAmerica is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will RogersI’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.
Amy WinehouseI am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerExperience is the teacher of all things.
Julius CaesarI 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.
Galileo GalileiIn truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIt doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.
Bad BunnyWe are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIf a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamCommunity colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack ObamaNo group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. RooseveltLibraries raised me.
Ray BradburyTrain up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
King SolomonLet’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. MenckenIn fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.
LeBron JamesCollege isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Helen KellerCutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
Barack ObamaFor me, education was power.
Michelle ObamaThe fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle ObamaBetween the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.
Charles BukowskiI have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.
Kurt VonnegutHomework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘
Angelina JolieKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George EliotIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouDo I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert EinsteinThe first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
John C. Maxwell