Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. 

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Our teachers deserve better feedback

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids

The best teacher is very interactive.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Common Core is a big win for education.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

You may be one person to the world but you may also be the world to one person.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The roots of beauty are love and kindness, the fruits are meaning and purpose.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.