“Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.”

“Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.”

“So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.”

“States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.”

“Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.”

“If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.”

“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?”

“It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.”

“'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.”

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.”

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”

“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”

“My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.”

“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”

“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.”

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”

“Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.”