Mickey Mouse

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

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

What I’m learning is that there is so much to unlearn.

All of life is a constant education.

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

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

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin – with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

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.

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

Learn something new every day.

My last year in high school, I worked at a bindery, side by side with grown-ups who had been there their entire lives. Knowing that I, as a 16-year-old, was getting the same income and doing the same work… it gave me respect for those workers. But it also gave me an understanding that more is needed for folks to be able to cobble together a decent life on minimum wage.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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.

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.