Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.

Most of all we need an education system which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify. It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

What I’m learning is that there is so much to unlearn.

My last year in high school, I worked at a bindery, side by side with grown-ups who had been there their entire lives. Knowing that I, as a 16-year-old, was getting the same income and doing the same work… it gave me respect for those workers. But it also gave me an understanding that more is needed for folks to be able to cobble together a decent life on minimum wage.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees – especially in STEM fields – benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.

Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read, he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

I mean, look, teachers don’t do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

It doesn’t hurt to get more education.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.