Bill Gates Quotes

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.

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

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.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Education has become a condition of national survival.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

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

Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

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.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

… schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

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. .