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 never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

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.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

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

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

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

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.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

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

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I spend a lot of time reading.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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.

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.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

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

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.