That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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.

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

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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?

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

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

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

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

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

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

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

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 love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

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.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

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

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.

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.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.