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" If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education. "

Julius Genachowski

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" Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked. "

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

" Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. "

" I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. "

" Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. "

" All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get. "

" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. "

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

" One of the things I've come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides. "

Julius Genachowski

" Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. "

The Most Important

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

Baruj Benacerraf

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. "

" I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. "

Tallulah Bankhead

" Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings. "

" I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space. "

Julius Genachowski

" I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life. "

" Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. "

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

" I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees. "

Malala Yousafzai

" I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. "

" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "

Michel de Montaigne

" True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. "

" If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education. "

" Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. "

" I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. "

" The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. "