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" The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. "

William Ralph Inge

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" Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. "

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

" Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed. "

" Responsibility educates. "

Wendell Phillips

" A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. "

Millicent Fawcett

" For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. "

" The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. "

" 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. "

" Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. "

Gustave Flaubert

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

Julius Genachowski

" Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach. "

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

" Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. "

" We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that. "

" The highest result of education is tolerance. "

" My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. "

Stanley B. Prusiner

" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. "

" All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education. "

" Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. "

" My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. "

" The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when the moral sense of a nation produced judicial decisions, such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required difficult local adjustments. "

" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "

" We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror. "

" As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. "

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

" Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education. "

" Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. "

" The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education. "

" Education is the development of power and ideal. "

W. E. B. Du Bois