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" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "

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" To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society. "

" 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. "

" A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. "

" Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. "

Barbara Mikulski

" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "

" I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education. "

Cesare Beccaria

" The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. "

" Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. "

" I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. "

" When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life. "

" The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools. "

Randi Weingarten

" I need to complete my homework on time. "

Malala Yousafzai

" There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. "

" Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education. "

" Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. "

" We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. "

" Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "

" My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker. "

" 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

" Education, for me, has helped me in my music. "

" I went to a regular school... education kept me sane. "

" Genius: the superhuman in man. "

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

Desiderius Erasmus

" The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion. "

Katherine Dunham

" Governments never learn. Only people learn. "

Milton Friedman

" A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. "

Robert M. Hutchins