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" Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. "

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" After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level. "

" America is the best half-educated country in the world. "

Nicholas M. Butler

" It is better to learn late than never. "

Publilius Syrus

" Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. "

" Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Without tact you can learn nothing. "

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

John Maynard Keynes

" Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. "

" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

" Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. "

Nicholas Kristof

" Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question. "

Orison Swett Marden

" I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. "

" 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.' "

" The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker. "

Miroslav Lajcak

" We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials. "

" Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. "

Michael Morpurgo

" Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. "

" I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace. "

Malala Yousafzai

" If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? "

Maria Montessori

" A child miseducated is a child lost. "

John F. Kennedy

" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "

" Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. "

Kerry Washington

" All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education. "

" 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. "

" Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations. "

" Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system. "

" 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

" To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. "