As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I like school and I like learning.

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.‘

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

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 fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

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

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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

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.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

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

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Libraries raised me.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Education is the best provision for old age.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

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