What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

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.

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

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

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

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

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.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

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.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

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

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel’s attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

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.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

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.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

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.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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