“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”

“The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.”

“No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.”

“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.”

“Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.”

“And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.”

“We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.”

“My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.”

“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.”

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

“I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.”

“Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.”

“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”

“Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.”

“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”

“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.”

“My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.”

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.”

“We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.”

“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.”