Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

You must unlearn what you have learned.

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 mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

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.

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.

I’ve seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

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.

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.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.