The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

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?

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

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.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

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.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

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

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Libraries raised me.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

War is what happens when language fails.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‚Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.‘

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

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?‘

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

Language is the dress of thought.