“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”

“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.”

“So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.”

“We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.”

“For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.”

“And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.”

“I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.”

“The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.”

“Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.”

“And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.”

“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.”

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”

“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”

“No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.”

“Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.”

“What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'”

“I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.”

“I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!”

“My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.”

“Man is what he reads.”

“You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.”