Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

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!

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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

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

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

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

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

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.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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 country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

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.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

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.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

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.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

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

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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

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