You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

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

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

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.

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.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Knowledge is power.

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.‘

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Information is not knowledge.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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.

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.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

I like school and I like learning.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

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

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

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

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Only Americans can hurt America.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Libraries raised me.