Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

I’m not really book-smart.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Only the educated are free.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

The proper study of mankind is books.

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

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

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

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

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

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

I 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.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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

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.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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!

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.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

I 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.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

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.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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.