“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.”

“As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.”

“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”

“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.”