We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Entire 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.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

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.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

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

I’m not really book-smart.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

Look, the American people are smart.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

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.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.