There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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

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.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Sexism is real in this country.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

I need physics more than friends.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

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

All movements go too far.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

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

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

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

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

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

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.