Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

History is written by the victors.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

America doesn’t have health insurance.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.