The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

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.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

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

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

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.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

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

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

The best teacher is very interactive.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

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.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.