Johann von Neumann

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

There is no education like adversity.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

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

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

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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

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

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

[On his donation of $100 million to UCLA in 2012 adding to the $200 million he donated in 2002] The cost of a world-class medical education should not deter our future innovators, doctors and scientists from the path they hope to pursue. We need the students at this world-class institution to be driven by determination and the desire to do their best work and not by the fear of crushing debt. I hope in doing this that others will be inspired to do the same.

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