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" In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. "

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" I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. "

" The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt. "

" Books, the children of the brain. "

" I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" We need to increase education budgets. "

Malala Yousafzai

" In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? "

" Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things. "

Material Things

" My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance. "

Winnie Byanyima

" There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. "

" The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. "

" I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture. "

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

The Most Important

" Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. "

Rutherford B. Hayes

" The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. "

Moza bint Nasser

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Education is all a matter of building bridges. "

" I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them. "

" My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn. "

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

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

" I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education. "

" The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything. "

Alexander Skarsgard

" To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. "

" 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

" All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open. "

" Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message. "

" The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. "

" I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. "