“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

“I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.”

“Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.”

“These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.”

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”

“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”

“We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.”

“The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.”

“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.”

“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.”

“To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.”

“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.”

“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.”

“If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.”

“For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.”

“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.”

“When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.”

“After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.”