Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where most folks, including my parents, didn’t have college degrees. But with a lot of hard work – and a lot of financial aid – I had the chance to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School, and that gave me the confidence to pursue my ambitions.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

Many of my students don’t know that I’m second lady of the United States… because, you know, it’s a community college.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

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

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.

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

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.

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

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

No task before our nation is more important than expanding and improving the educational opportunities of all our people. The concept that every American deserves the opportunity to attain the highest level of education of which he is capable is not new to this Administration – it is a traditional ideal of democracy. But it is time that we moved toward the fulfillment of this ideal with more vigor and less delay. For education is both the foundation and the unifying force of our democratic way of life – it is the mainspring of our economic and social progress – it is the highest expression of achievement in our society, ennobling and enriching human life. In short, it is at the same time the most profitable investment society can make and the richest reward it can offer.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.