In today's knowledge-based economy what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector for example pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals ' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Personally I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Like the average American that I hang out with and like my father before me I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week double features second run.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon where all the women are strong all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average.