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" Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children. "

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" In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. "

" Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work. "

Timothy Thomas Fortune

" I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education. "

" I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. "

" My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard. "

Gretchen Bleiler

" You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too. "

" Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background. "

" The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals. "

" A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. "

Millicent Fawcett

" The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. "

James A. Baldwin

" We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. "

" 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. "

" For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. "

Abraham Lincoln

" 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. "

" My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life. "

Baruj Benacerraf

" 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. "

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

Malala Yousafzai

" As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last. "

" The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. "

" Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger. "

Trisha Yearwood

" My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. "

" 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. "