“Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.”

“It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.”

“THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.”

“We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.”

“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

“Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.”

“Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.”

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

“Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.”

“Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”

“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.”

“The mere imparting of information is not education.”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”

“I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.”

“Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.”

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.”