Thomas Jefferson

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Never spend your money before you have it.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

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

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

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.

I came in early every day for six months till I intercepted the letter from UCLA saying they’d never heard of me. I replaced it with a letter that said I’d graduated.

I just am not good at math.

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.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it’s who I am.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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.

All of life is a constant education.

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.

The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.