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

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

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

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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?

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.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

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

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

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

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I hardly went to school.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

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

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Information is not knowledge.