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.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

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.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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 believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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?‘

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

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.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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.

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

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.