Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

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

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

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

Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

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

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

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.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

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.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

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

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Adults are obsolete children.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

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.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

A teacher should have a creative mind.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

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.

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.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.