Anne Campbell

In teaching the children at Greenfield Village, we are trying to get back some of the solid McGuffey qualities.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.

Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American’s capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where most folks, including my parents, didn’t have college degrees. But with a lot of hard work – and a lot of financial aid – I had the chance to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School, and that gave me the confidence to pursue my ambitions.

For profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

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.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

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

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.

Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read, he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.