“People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.”

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”

“They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.”

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”

“Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.”

“Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.”

“In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.”

“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”

“The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.”

“Every educated person is a future enemy.”

“We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.”

“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”

“You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.”

“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”

“Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.”

“More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.”

“The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.”

“This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.”

“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.”