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" Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. "

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" I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray. It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work. "

" The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn. "

Martin O'Malley

" I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level! "

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

" The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. "

John F. Kennedy

" The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it. "

Shelley Berkley

" Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. "

Giacomo Casanova

" 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. "

" Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. "

" During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. "

Black And White

" My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back. "

" I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?' "

" Books, the children of the brain. "

" How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice! "

" I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. "

Albert Einstein

" Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system. "

" I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. "

" 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

" To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Responsibility educates. "

Wendell Phillips

" One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education. "

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "

Daniel J. Boorstin

" Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. "

" Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. "

College Education

" My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. "

" 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. "

" Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. "