By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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

I’m not really book-smart.

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.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

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

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.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

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

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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

I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

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

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?

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

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.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

I like school and I like learning.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

There is no education like adversity.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

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.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

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.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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

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.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.