Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.

Education is the only solution. Education first.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

Education is not just another consumer item. It is the bedrock of our democracy.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate and plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people, can be most engaged in.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must earnestly tackle this question and bring our educational policy and program on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast developments that have taken place all over the world. .

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.

Education is paramount in light of so many things that are out there.

Education has helped me a lot.