Catherine the Great

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.

I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.

Learn something new every day.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

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

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

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.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

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

Most of all we need an education system which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify. It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

All of life is a constant education.

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.

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

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.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

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.