Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

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

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

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

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

Information is not knowledge.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

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.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Politics have no relation to morals.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.