Galileo Galilei

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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

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.

A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

My first task is to help students reject 18 years of poor learning that teaches them that knowledge is a product rather than a process.

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

The biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

There was no word dyslexia when I was a kid. You were just dumb.

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.

As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who would go one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

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