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I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.
— Bob Marley
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
— Plato
Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
— Michelle Obama
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
— Wynton Marsalis
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
— Aristotle
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.
— Malala Yousafzai
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
— Malala Yousafzai
I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
— Sam Brownback
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
— John Dewey
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
— Horace Mann
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
— Bertrand Russell
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
— Carol Burnett
A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
— John Paul Jones
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
— Alex Tabarrok
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
— Albert Einstein
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
— Julia Gillard
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
— James A. Baldwin
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
— Ralph Ellison
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
— Benjamin Franklin
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
— Anatole France
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
— Malcolm X
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
— Alvin Toffler
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
— Gavin Newsom
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
— Edmund Burke
Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.
— Michelle Obama
You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
— Jeff Foxworthy
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
— Gaston Caperton
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
— Steve Irwin
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
— Jonathan Sacks
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
— Malcolm Forbes
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
— Malala Yousafzai
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
— Epictetus
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
— Louis L'Amour
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
— Horace Mann
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
— Robert E. Lee
I need to complete my homework on time.
— Malala Yousafzai
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
— Mary Harris Jones
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
— Ed Markey
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
— Ellen Key
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
— Horace Mann
Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.
— George Weah
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
— Charles B. Rangel
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
— Jerome Bruner
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
— Shiv Nadar
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
— Abraham Lincoln
Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.
— Narendra Modi
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
— Desmond Tutu
I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.
— Phil Mickelson
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
— Nelson Mandela
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
— Derek Bok
I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.
— Justin Trudeau
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
— Plato
You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
— Donna Shalala
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
— Dalai Lama
During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.
— Jean Piaget
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.
— George Lucas
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
— Francis Bacon
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
— Bo Jackson
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
— Muhammad Yunus
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
— Galileo Galilei
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
— Albio Sires
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
— Maria Montessori
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
— Bill Gates
You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
— Malcolm X
Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.
— Judy Biggert
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
— Josephine Baker
Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
— Piers Anthony
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
— James A. Garfield
The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.
— David Cameron
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
— Will Rogers
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
— Christine Gregoire
Good questions outrank easy answers.
— Paul Samuelson
The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.
— Roy Romer
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
— James A. Baldwin
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
— Alexander Pope
It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
— Barack Obama
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.
— Kathy Reichs
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
— Charlotte Bronte
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
— Aldous Huxley
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
— Harvey S. Firestone
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
— Bill Vaughan
You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.
— Mitt Romney
Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
— Zaha Hadid
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.
— Barack Obama
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.
— Gordon Gee
The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. 
— Abraham Lincoln
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
— Al McGuire
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
— George Santayana
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
— Maya Angelou
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
— Paulo Freire
Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
— Zaha Hadid
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
— Alexis Herman
The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.
— Bill Bennett
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
— James E. Rogers
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
— Steven Soderbergh
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
— Julia Gillard
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
— Eric Idle
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
— John F. Kennedy
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
— Brad Henry
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
— Jane Elliot
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
— Edmund Barton
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
— Alan Autry
Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
— Steve Irwin
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
— Thomas Sowell
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
— Aloe Blacc
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.
— Frans de Waal
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
— Quincy Jones
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
— Hank Johnson
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
— Lou Holtz
Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.
— Justin Trudeau
If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
— Wendy Kopp
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
— Sebastian Thrun
Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
— Orison Swett Marden
The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.
— Noam Chomsky
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
— Maria Montessori
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
— Margaret Spellings
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
— Edward Thorndike
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.
— Robert Shapiro
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
— Malala Yousafzai
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
— Michel de Montaigne
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
— Jose Rizal
We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.
— Jim Jeffords
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum. 
— Aaron Swartz
It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
— Bernie Sanders
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'
— Amity Shlaes
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
— Charles Handy
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
— Thad Cochran
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
— Agnes Repplier
It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.
— Sebastian Coe
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
— Ken Robinson
Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
— John Marshall
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
— A. A. Milne
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
— B. F. Skinner
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
— Blaise Pascal
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
— Edward Everett
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
— Ernest Dimnet
An educated people can be easily governed.
— Frederick the Great
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
— Milton Friedman
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
— Angela Merkel
I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
— Malala Yousafzai
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
— Bayard Rustin
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
— Angela Davis
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. 
— Solomon Ortiz
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
— Solomon Ortiz
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
— Patricia Schroeder
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
— Bill Frist
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
— Paulo Freire
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
— Solomon Ortiz
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
— Jim Rohn
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
— Karl Kraus
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
— Mary Astell
In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
— Victoria Wood
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
— Tom Vilsack
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
— Ken Robinson
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
— Will Smith
The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
— George Eastman
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
— Severo Ochoa
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
— Ben Bernanke
I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?
— Sheryl Lee Ralph
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
— Earl Warren
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
— William Masters
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
— Christine Gregoire
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
— William J. Clinton
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
— Barbara Boxer
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
— Jodi Rell
The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.
— Ron Kind
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
— Alphonso Jackson
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
— Carter G. Woodson
Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.
— Alan Autry
In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
— Mike Rogers
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.
— Ruben Hinojosa
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
— Phillip E. Johnson
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
— Adam Weishaupt
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
— Paul Berg
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
— John Buchan
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
— Harri Holkeri
Education is the vaccine for violence.
— Edward James Olmos
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
— Bobby Unser
Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. 
— Will Durant
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
— Dean Kamen
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
— George Orwell
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
— James Madison
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
— Mel Martinez
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
— Hillary Clinton
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
— Michael F. Easley
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
— Daisaku Ikeda
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
— Pierre Bourdieu
It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.
— Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things.
— Moza bint Nasser
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
— Peter Greenaway
If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
— Pele
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
— Ellen G. White
We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.
— Jesse Williams
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
— Thomas Sowell
The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.
— Malala Yousafzai
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
— Michael Moore
Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
— Twyla Tharp
A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.
— Charles B. Rangel
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
— J. B. Pritzker
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.
— Richard Dawkins
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.
— Thomas Sowell
I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.
— Robert H. Schuller
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.
— Tom Stoppard
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
— Damian Marley
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
— Timothy Noah
A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.
— Kate Reardon
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'
— Donald Bren
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
— Henry Giroux
Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.
— Ahmed Zewail
Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.
— Ahmed Zewail
We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.
— Marco Rubio
Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.
— Kevin McCarthy
The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
— Dan Shechtman
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
— Heather Watts
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.
— Kirsten Gillibrand
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
— Pierre Bourdieu
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.
— Nicholas Kristof
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
— Peter Drucker
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
— Robert Charles Winthrop
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
— Wendy Kopp
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
— Robert M. Hutchins
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
— Aleister Crowley
Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
— Jane Fonda
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
— Joseph Stiglitz
I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.
— Jon Huertas
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
— Jane Austen
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
— Ron Lewis
Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
— Seth Godin
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
— Mark Twain
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
— Plato
There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
— Bernie Sanders
Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.
— Mike Gallagher
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
— Abraham Maslow
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
— Maya Angelou
Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
— Phyllis Schlafly
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
— Karl Rove
I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
— Haile Gebrselassie
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
— Steven Spielberg
Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
— Wendy Davis
Latinos are concerned about the same pocketbook issues that matter to most middle class Americans - creating good-paying jobs in this country, making sure our children get a quality education, and ensuring that our families have access to affordable and quality healthcare.
— Linda Sanchez
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
— Adam Braun
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
— Ken Robinson
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
— Edmund Burke
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
— William Temple
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.
— Nicholas Kristof
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
— Andrew Cuomo
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
— Robert M. Hutchins
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.
— Ron Lewis
Education is the art of making man ethical.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. 
— Jane Austen
Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
— Shakira
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
— James Thurber
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
— Marshall McLuhan
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
— Steve Case
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
— Jane Fonda
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
— G. M. Trevelyan
I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.
— Condoleezza Rice
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
— Kailash Satyarthi
Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
— Brad Henry
I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.
— Wilma Mankiller
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Education is the best economic policy there is.
— Tony Blair
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
— Paulo Freire
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.
— Frederick William Faber
Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.
— Ben Bernanke