Henry Ford

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

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

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.

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

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

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Most of all we need an education system which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify. It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

In addition to an education, kids were supposed to graduate with some basic values, self-discipline, and life skills. A little common sense wouldn’t hurt either. Our schools don’t teach that anymore, instead we’re more concerned about kids having self-esteem and feeling good about themselves than we are about preparing them for real life. The politically correct crowd has taken over our schools, and as a result we are failing our children.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.

You must work on improving your skills every day and never quit.

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.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.