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

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

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

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

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

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

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

There is no sin except stupidity.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

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.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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.

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

Ability without honor is useless.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

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.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I give the children education.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

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.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

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

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.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.