“Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.”

“It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.”

“I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.”

“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.”

“Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.”

“What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.”

“I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.”

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”

“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.”

“Education liberates a woman.”

“Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.”

“I don't know if I'm a national education figure.”

“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”

“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

“I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.”

“Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.”

“In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.”

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.”