Sir Walter Scott

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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

There is no education like adversity.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today’s youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

[On his donation of $100 million to UCLA in 2012 adding to the $200 million he donated in 2002] The cost of a world-class medical education should not deter our future innovators, doctors and scientists from the path they hope to pursue. We need the students at this world-class institution to be driven by determination and the desire to do their best work and not by the fear of crushing debt. I hope in doing this that others will be inspired to do the same.

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

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

In addition to an education, kids were supposed to graduate with some basic values, self-discipline, and life skills. A little common sense wouldn’t hurt either. Our schools don’t teach that anymore, instead we’re more concerned about kids having self-esteem and feeling good about themselves than we are about preparing them for real life. The politically correct crowd has taken over our schools, and as a result we are failing our children.