Henry Ford

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

The young people got me interested in aviation. It is part of the motor age. Development is dependent on power.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a good-paying job in the growing global economy. Community colleges also offer mentorship and support that goes far beyond the classroom.

We seldom suffer from taking our subject of study too seriously, but we usually suffer when we take ourselves too seriously.

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.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

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

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

My first task is to help students reject 18 years of poor learning that teaches them that knowledge is a product rather than a process.

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.

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

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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.

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

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.