The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

America is the greatest country in the world.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Only the educated are free.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

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

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

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

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

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.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

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

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.