Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Common Core is a big win for education.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

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

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I need physics more than friends.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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.

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.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

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

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Knowledge is power.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

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.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.