Study as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
School-age youngsters are capable of absorbing and retaining a tremendous amount of learning... I feel convinced that a full time education for our youth is our best investment in the future.
I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
Game based learning can and should help good teachers do more. Done well, educational technology and game-based learning can help teachers with larger classes and students at different levels and moving at different paces.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. Schools should be palaces. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense. That is my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.
Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity.
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.