Barbara Mikuski

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

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

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.

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

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

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

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.

My last year in high school, I worked at a bindery, side by side with grown-ups who had been there their entire lives. Knowing that I, as a 16-year-old, was getting the same income and doing the same work… it gave me respect for those workers. But it also gave me an understanding that more is needed for folks to be able to cobble together a decent life on minimum wage.

Learn something new every day.

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

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

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.

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.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field!