By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

Only the educated are free.

George Carlin’s album, ‚Class Clown,‘ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

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

I’ve worked with children all my life.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.