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

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.

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

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

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.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I teach children to be winners.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Common Core is a big win for education.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

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.

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

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

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.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

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.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

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.

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

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

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.

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.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.