“We do need education, just not the one-size-fits-all education. Albert Einstein did not talk until he was four years old.”

“If the student got little from his mates, he got little more from his masters. The four years passed at college were, for his purposes, wasted. Harvard College was a good school, but at bottom what the boy disliked most was any school at all. He did not want to be one in a hundred — one per cent of an education. He regarded himself as the only person for whom his education had value, and he wanted the whole of it.”

“In humanity, there is no one size fits all. The best we can all do is to be vigilant and empathic at the same time.”

“We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”

“All the girls and boys seen preening through school halls, fighting to fit in, games they just can’t win, higher education dumbing down a nation, around the square unsure of where we fit in.”

“Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.”

“One size does not fit all.”

“But there's no reason to wait until I'm grown up when there's so much I can do now. So many Americans take so much for granted, so it's only right to help someone who has so little. That's why I'm sponsoring a four-year-old Dalit student, so Ayisath can have a good education all the way from the start.”

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

“The educated reader knows, as he reads me, that he is listening to a fugue in four voices.”