You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Service of any type requires preparation.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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.

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

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

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I teach children to be winners.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

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

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

Education is the best provision for old age.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.