Bill Dobbins

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

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.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

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

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.

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.

As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who would go one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

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.

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

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