Richard Branson

If you’re bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don’t think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

Listen – it makes you sound smarter.

No task before our nation is more important than expanding and improving the educational opportunities of all our people. The concept that every American deserves the opportunity to attain the highest level of education of which he is capable is not new to this Administration – it is a traditional ideal of democracy. But it is time that we moved toward the fulfillment of this ideal with more vigor and less delay. For education is both the foundation and the unifying force of our democratic way of life – it is the mainspring of our economic and social progress – it is the highest expression of achievement in our society, ennobling and enriching human life. In short, it is at the same time the most profitable investment society can make and the richest reward it can offer.

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

What I’m learning is that there is so much to unlearn.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

I mean, look, teachers don’t do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees – especially in STEM fields – benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.

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

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

The more you learn the more you realize how much you don’t know.