What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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?

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

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 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.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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

I just want to be a great example to younger kids.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

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

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

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.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

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

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

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

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Common Core is a big win for education.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.