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" Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. "

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" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

" 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. "

" Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. "

Albert Einstein

" The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. "

" During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle. "

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

" To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. "

" I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education. "

" The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. "

" A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. "

Gwendolyn Brooks

" When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" 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? "

" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class. "

Thomas E. Perez

" The education of a man is never completed until he dies. "

" Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars. "

" Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. "

Hillary Clinton

" The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals. "

" Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. "

Oswald Chambers

" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "

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

" All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one. "

Malala Yousafzai

" A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred. "

Randi Weingarten

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

" Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. "