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" Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce? "

Dan Pink

Learning

People

Questions

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" Responsibility educates. "

" I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. "

" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "

" Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. "

" All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well. "

" The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Life

Woman

Responsibility

" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

" Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing. "

" It is always in season for old men to learn. "

" As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people. "

" I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. "

Al McGuire

College

Education

" I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education. "

" It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education. "

Barack Obama

" A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. "

" Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. "

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

" It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. "

" You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison. "

" 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. "

" We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. "

" The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences. "

" Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education. "

" When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. "

Yoko Ono

Education

Mother

" I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. "

" Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. "

" The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. "

" The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. "

" Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. "

" Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" 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. "

Barack Obama