Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

My generation is so intelligent.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.