Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

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.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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.

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.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

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

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

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 greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

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

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.