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" Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "

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" Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for. "

" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "

" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "

" Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. "

Bryant H. McGill

" To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. "

" The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn. "

Martin O'Malley

" No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. "

" When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education. "

" Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. "

" I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. "

" We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. "

Maria Montessori

" Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. "

" A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. "

" Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health care, and investments in our economic growth. "

" There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. "

Herbert Spencer

" The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable. "

" Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. "

" We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. "

" As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin. "

" 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

" I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power. "

" There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education. "

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Higher Education

" Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. "

Chris Van Hollen

" We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools. "

" The highest result of education is tolerance. "

" The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. "

Robert M. Hutchins