Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

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.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

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.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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?

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

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

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

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.

The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

I like school and I like learning.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

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.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.