In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

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

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I’m half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That’s why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I’ve seen so many.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

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

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

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

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

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.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

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

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.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Only the educated are free.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

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.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

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.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.