Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any 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 engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

To innovate is not to reform.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

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.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.