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" A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. "

Theodore Roosevelt

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" I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities. "

Pramila Jayapal

" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "

" The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. "

" Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. "

John Maynard Keynes

" I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life. "

" It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. "

" Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. "

" We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

" Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years. "

" Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece. "

Susan Polis Schutz

" No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner. "

" Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. "

" Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people. "

" Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. "

" Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity. "

" The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education. "

" As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin. "

" This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. "

William Glasser

" In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. "

" Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that. "

" 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. "

" Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. "

" Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports. "

" Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health. "