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

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" The best escalator to opportunity in America is education. "

Nicholas Kristof

" I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth. "

" 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. "

" Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. "

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

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

" 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. "

" To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. "

" America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. "

" Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education. "

" There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming. "

" In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. "

" 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. "

" 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

" The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. "

" It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. "

Harvey S. Firestone

" Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. "

" Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. "

" When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues. "

" An educated people can be easily governed. "

Frederick the Great

" In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared. "

" Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" It is always in season for old men to learn. "

" Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. "

Rutherford B. Hayes

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

" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "

" When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. "

" Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system. "

" Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. "

Maria Montessori

" We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. "