Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

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

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

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.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

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

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.