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.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

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

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I was not an activist.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

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

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

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

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

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

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

For me, education was power.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

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.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

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.

Racism is real in this country.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

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?

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

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

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

I hardly went to school.