When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Knowledge is power.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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

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.

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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.

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

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

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.

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.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

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

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 believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

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

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

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

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

For me, education was power.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

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.

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

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