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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

My future is righteousness.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.

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.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

Nature is the best instructor.

Nature is stronger than education.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

New facts often trigger new ideas

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.