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.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

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

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

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

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

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

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.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I like school and I like learning.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

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 know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

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

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

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.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Teach a parrot the terms ‚supply and demand‘ and you’ve got an economist.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.

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.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

The best teacher is very interactive.

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.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

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

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.