Barack Obama Quotes

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

We must bring it to pass ... if we have the peace that all the youth now in England, born of free men who have the means that they can apply to it, may be devoted to learning ... until such time as they can read well what is written in England.

I would stand at the cradle of every colored boy and girl in the land and bid them to awake from their slumber, put on their clothes and shoes, prepare their toilet, eat an early breakfast, throw their satchel of books on their shoulders and hasten to the school house and remain until they have secured a parchment of graduation

One of the most important features of the later stages of capitalist civilization is the vigorous expansion of the educational apparatus and particularly of the facilities for higher education.

We want a corps of educated instructors – we want gratuitous instruction in our academies and colleges. The di minorum of learning ought to be elevated in the scale of public estimation and intellectual endowment.

Freedmen have the natural thirst for knowledge, aspire to power and influence… coupled with learning, and are excited by the special study of books.

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.

For me, education was power.

Television was essentially my college.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.