Turn on the TV or radio, check your email or Facebook and you will see a reference to politics in America. No matter if you lean left of right on the political spectrum, everyone seems to have something important to say. Let’s take a look to see what some of our best and brightest have had to say about our field — education, learning and leadership.
Hopefully you will enjoy this collection of quotations, totally bipartisan!
- “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
- “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” Harry S. Truman
- “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin
- “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” Benjamin Franklin
- “Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams
- “You see, we’ll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn’t quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there’s excellence in every classroom.” George W. Bush
- “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy
- “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy
- “And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it’s time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don’t go in to education to get rich. They don’t go in to education because they don’t believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we’ve got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.” Barack Obama
- “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” Abraham Lincoln
- “There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” John Adams
- “If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.” William Clinton
- “No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.” Herbert Hoover
- “Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.” George H.W. Bush
