We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

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

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

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

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

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

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

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.

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.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

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

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

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

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

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

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.

Nature has always had more force than education.

For me, education was power.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

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

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘