Teddy Roosevelt

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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

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

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

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

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

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

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

Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.