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

Chris Van Hollen

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" For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. "

" I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. "

James A. Baldwin

" Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. "

" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "

" The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. "

" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "

" You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. "

" You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. "

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

" We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in all kinds of ways. And it's just not good for their cognitive - it's not good for their social development - I mean, that is incredible that kids in kindergarten... We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education, not moving into them. "

" I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. "

" 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 think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward. "

" The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education. "

" Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. "

Maria Montessori

" A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. 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

" As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well. "

" Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. "

" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "

Maria Montessori

" I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. "

" My family is everything. 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. "

" Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. "

" Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. "

Oswald Chambers

" 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. "

" For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. "

Abraham Lincoln

" There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. "

John F. Kennedy

" It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me. "

" Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. "