John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.

A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

What is life but education, anyway?

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.

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

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

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

My first task is to help students reject 18 years of poor learning that teaches them that knowledge is a product rather than a process.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.