"And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true"