Mark Pocan

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

We seldom suffer from taking our subject of study too seriously, but we usually suffer when we take ourselves too seriously.

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

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

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.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.