You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

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 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.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

For me, education was power.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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

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

The best teacher is very interactive.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

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

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

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.

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

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I’m not really book-smart.

There is no education like adversity.

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

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

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.

Knowledge is power.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

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

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.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.