“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”

“Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.”

“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”

“I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'”

“My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.”

“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”

“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”

“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”