Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

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.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I hardly went to school.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

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.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

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.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

You 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.

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

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

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

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

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

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

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

It 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.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

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.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

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 believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.