Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape .... Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.

…it is only after our physical and political needs are supplied, and when we are free from necessary duties and cares, that we are in a condition for desiring to see, to hear, and to learn.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

You learn a lot from kids.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.