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

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

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

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

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.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

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

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

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.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

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

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

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

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

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?

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

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.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

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.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

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

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

I’m much healthier now.

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.

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

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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?

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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.