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.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

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

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I give the children education.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

Common Core is a big win for education.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

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.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.