Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

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

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

I’m not really book-smart.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

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’ve got to dumb America up again.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Only the educated are free.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

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

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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

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

I hardly went to school.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

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

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.

Knowledge is power.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

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

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.