This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

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.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

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

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

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

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

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.

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

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

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?‘

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

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

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

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.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.