We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

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

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

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

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

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Information is not knowledge.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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

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.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

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

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I like my fair share of board games.

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I hardly went to school.

I like school and I like learning.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

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

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

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

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