Henry Ford

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Anything that is not right, whether it temporarily favors the employees or the employers, cannot last-because it is not right.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

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.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

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.

You must unlearn what you have learned.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I’ve dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half… I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop…. I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn’t do it for fifteen.

All of life is a constant education.

A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today’s youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

There was no word dyslexia when I was a kid. You were just dumb.

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

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.

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