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

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

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?‘

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

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

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

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

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

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

And every human being is precious.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Man, all lives matter.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I love diversity.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I teach children to be winners.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.