S. Weir Mitchell

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Education can’t focus only on developing our wonderful brain. We also need warm-heartedness. This is my view.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I’ve dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half… I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop…. I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn’t do it for fifteen.

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

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.