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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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

I need physics more than friends.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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

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.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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?

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.