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

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

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.

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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

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.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

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 have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

They know enough who know how to learn.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

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

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

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.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

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

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

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.