“What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?”

“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.”

“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”

“My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.”

“I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.”

“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.”

“It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.”

“When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.”

“Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.”

“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.”

“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”

“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?”

“As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.”

“There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.”

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”

“During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.”

“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.”

“Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.”

“I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.”

“The value of a good education has never left me.”

“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.”