Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

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

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

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

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

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

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

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.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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.

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

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

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

The best teacher is very interactive.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.