Bradford Marsalis

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

You must work on improving your skills every day and never quit.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees – especially in STEM fields – benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I’ve dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half… I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop…. I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn’t do it for fifteen.