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.

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

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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 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?‘

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.

We boil at different degrees.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

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

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

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

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

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.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

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.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

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

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

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.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

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.

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.