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.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

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

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Only the educated are free.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

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.

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

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

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

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.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.