Education

Education is about absorbing what others have learned and created and believe, but it is also about our responses to those concepts and those convictions.

The world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life. You've already received an engraved invitation to this life. You've already been asked to attend.

It was too late for 'talk-teaching' — 'do-teaching would be a lot faster.'

Nations of technically trained people who don't know how to criticize authority, useful profit-makers with obtuse imaginations.

Imagination is cultivated, above all, by courses in the arts and humanities. It is in some ways the most essential of all, if we are to work toward a world in which we see distant lives as spacious and deep.

The humanities and the arts only do what is much more precious than making money: they make a world that is worth living in.

Your great education is what got you the interview, but it is who you truly are that will get you the job.

No question is too stupid. You're not as smart as you think you are. You never will be. There's always room to learn. Don't be scared to ask.

Be strong enough to say, 'I don't know.' When you don't know, say so. Don't guess. Don't fake it.

Honor your curiosity. It is one of the most powerful forces you possess.

Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity—reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

The journey is never over until you share what you have learned with others.