Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

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 pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

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

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

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

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

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.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

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

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

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

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

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

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