Will Rogers Quotes

In the underdeveloped countries, we have young men and women, many of them of capacity but without opportunity to improve themselves. They cannot do so without help.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

There are several million job vacancies on the country right now, but they don’t line up with skills [of the unemployed.]

We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.

I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.

I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of lack of potential.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

Better educated than wealthy

There are not enough good jobs for the skill levels we have.

As we lose manufacturing jobs across the country, the burden falls disproportionately on Black Americans.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

It was a shock to visit a Job Corps camp and see adults who had been through some years of our public education system stare at a blackboard where a teacher was writing CAT or helping them write their own names. In another room men were learning to tell time.

What could be the reason that so many should be permitted to beg who are willing to work?