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

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

It’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow’s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

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

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

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

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

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

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

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

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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?

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Libraries raised me.

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.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Knowledge is power.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

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