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.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

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.

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

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

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

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

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 have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

I like school and I like learning.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

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.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

For me, education was power.

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.

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.