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.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

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.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

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.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

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

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I have wasted my hours.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

To make headway, improve your head.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

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.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I think I’ve got wiser.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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?

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.