If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

India has probably lost its position to China as the world's workshop. At the same time it has the power to be ahead of China when it comes to knowledge. Not that the Chinese are far behind. They will get there. But our challenge is to invest sufficiently in education.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.