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.‘

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

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

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

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn’t actually doing any writing.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

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

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

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Most 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.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

Too 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.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

In 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.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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.

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.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.