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

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I don’t exercise.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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

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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I teach children to be winners.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

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

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

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.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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

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 hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

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

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

They know enough who know how to learn.