Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

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

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

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 truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

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

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

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

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

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

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

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

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

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.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

In the real world, children love me.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

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

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.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘