Disraeli

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

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

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.

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.

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

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.

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.

Learn something new every day.

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

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

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

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.

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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