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.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

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.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

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.

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

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

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

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

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the 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.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

I’m not really book-smart.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

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

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

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.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

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

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

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

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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 titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

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.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.