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

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

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.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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.

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.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Libraries raised 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.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I need physics more than friends.

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

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

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.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

They know enough who know how to learn.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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

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.

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.

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

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

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 truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Only the educated are free.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

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

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

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.