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

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

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.

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

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

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

The book you don’t read won’t help.

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

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

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.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

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.

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

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

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.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

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

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.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

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

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don’t like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

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.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

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.