We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

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

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

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

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.

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.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

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

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.