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" Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. "

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" You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment. "

" I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education. "

Callan McAuliffe

" Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. "

Rutherford B. Hayes

" Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. "

" Whatever good things we build end up building us. "

" Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. "

" A child miseducated is a child lost. "

John F. Kennedy

" It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. "

" To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. "

Aleister Crowley

" The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. "

" It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. "

Leonard Boswell

" People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. "

" I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education. "

" Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. "

" When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty. "

Winnie Byanyima

" Sex education has to do with what's in people's head. "

" For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. "

" 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

" I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. "

" What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there. "

" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "

Michelle Alexander

" I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. "

Wilma Mankiller

" The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. "

" Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. "

Amos Bronson Alcott