You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

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.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I am not a fan of books.

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

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

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.‘

Nature has always had more force than education.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

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.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

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

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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.

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

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I like school and I like learning.

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.