Henry Ford

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

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.

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

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

All of life is a constant education.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it’s who I am.

For profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American’s capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

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.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

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