Adlai Stevenson

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I just am not good at math.

All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

The biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities – they can do both.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

Most of all we need an education system which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify. It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

I’ve seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.