“Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.”

“My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.”

“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.”

“Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.”

“I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.”

“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”

“An educated people can be easily governed.”

“This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.”

“Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.”

“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.”

“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

“I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.”

“I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.”

“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.”

“Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.”

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

“I did get a degree in special education.”

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”

“Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.”

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.”