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

I like school and I like learning.

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

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

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

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

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.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

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.

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?

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

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.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The proper study of mankind is books.

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.

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.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

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.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

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.‘

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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.

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

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

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 give the children education.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.