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

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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

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.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

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.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

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

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

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.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.