Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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

This young century will be liberty’s century.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

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

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

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.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Libraries raised me.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Knowledge is power.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

Information is not knowledge.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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.

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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.

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.

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.