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

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

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

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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.‘

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

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.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

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

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

If you judge, investigate.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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 can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.