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

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

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

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

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.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

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.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.