Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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

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?

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.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

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

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

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.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Information is not knowledge.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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?

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

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.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

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.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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?

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.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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 Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I give the children education.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

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.

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

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.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

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

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.