Patricia Neal

I’ve seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.

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

[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.

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.

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin – with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

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

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.

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

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Studying in countries like China isn’t only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It’s not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It’s also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It’s about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world.

All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.