The best teacher is very interactive.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

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

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

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.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

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.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

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.

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 roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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

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

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

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?

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I’m not really book-smart.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

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.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

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.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

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

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

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.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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.

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

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.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

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

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

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Love is a better teacher than duty.