“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.”

“But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.”

“The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.”

“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.”

“Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.”

“Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.”

“It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.”

“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.”

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”

“I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.”

“I believe in local control of education.”

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

“The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.”

“The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.”

“I never let schooling interfere with my education.”

“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.”

“Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“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.”