The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

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

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

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

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

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

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

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

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

There are some loony people in this world!

The doer alone learneth.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

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

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I’m crepuscular.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

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

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

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

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

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.