A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltWithout education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. ChestertonStorytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.
Margaret AtwoodEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund BurkePatriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur SchopenhauerHad 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.
Richard BransonBe careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
EpictetusTo be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAll of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
Virat KohliIf you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank ZappaUntil 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
Kurt VonnegutMaybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.
Tom BradyIn my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen HawkingNo man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?
Jordan PetersonI’m not really book-smart.
EminemHomework’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!‘
Angelina JolieI enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.
Lando NorrisMusic when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John RuskinA little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard ShawOn vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma BombeckI did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
Madeleine AlbrightI never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
Michelle ObamaLeisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin FranklinThis will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert HubbardMost of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.
John KennedyA Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. MenckenLet’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. MenckenJust as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Leonardo da VinciEducation is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Thomas SowellUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. PattonI don’t get bored.
Haruki MurakamiEntire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
PlatoIt should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert EinsteinIf you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
ConfuciusThe chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert FrostThe 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?
Muhammad AliIt’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
Queen Elizabeth IIToo often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.
Colin PowellI don’t race cars.
Dwayne JohnsonUntil we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill GatesOn the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
Nelson MandelaMy biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Steve JobsTime you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John LennonI am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.
Robert KiyosakiIf a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis BaconUpon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin DisraeliThe 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?‘
Bill GatesAll the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George EliotFor a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
Bill GatesEducation can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
Abraham MaslowPersonally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston ChurchillPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray BradburyThere 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.
Robert FrostEmploy thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin FranklinEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinIt is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.
Alexander Graham Bell