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I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

I was x years old in the year x2.

I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?