What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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.

What is true belongs to me!

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

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.

For 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.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

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 don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I hardly went to school.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

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.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.