Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

I 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.

I’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

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

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

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.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

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.

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.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

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

I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

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

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

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

The 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.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

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.

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

The 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.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work – that’s Prince to me.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want 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.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

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.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

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.