“Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.”

“Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.”

“Education is the mother of leadership.”

“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”

“One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.”

“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”

“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.”

“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.”

“The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.”

“As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.”

“I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.”

“Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.”

“If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.”

“The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.”

“Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.”

“The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.”

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

“What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”