“It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.”

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.”

“Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.”

“So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.”

“States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.”

“Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.”

“If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.”