John Gray

As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who would go one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake — but for the future of our nation’s sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness — for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy — for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government – for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

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

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

As a community college professor for over twenty years, I’ve seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances, they show up. They work hard. They believe anything is possible.

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.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.

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