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

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

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

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

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.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

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

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

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.

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

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

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?

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

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.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

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.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.