It’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow’s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Libraries raised me.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Education is the best provision for old age.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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?

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

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.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

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

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.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

I feel it’s my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.