Bradford Marsalis

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

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

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.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.