“Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.”

“I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.”

“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.”

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

“I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.”

“And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.”

“Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.”

“I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.”

“In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.”

“My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.”

“Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.”

“Nature has always had more force than education.”

“Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.”

“I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.”

“I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.”

“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”

“In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.”

“I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.”

“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.”

“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”

“The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.”