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" 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. "

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" A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. "

Phillip E. Johnson

" Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders - from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members. "

Randi Weingarten

" I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. "

" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "

" Education is the transmission of civilization. "

" I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. "

" If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. "

" Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. "

Kerry Washington

" My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties. "

" No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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. "

" We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. "

Public Education

" There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body. You cannot gain knowledge just by mugging books, but you can definitely learn things from your practical experiences. "

" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "

Michel de Montaigne

" We need better public education and more realistic education. "

" Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success. "

" American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. "

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

" 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. "

" Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. "

" Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. "

" Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. "

Bryant H. McGill

" What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. "

" I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. "

David McCullough

" Read in order to live. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece. "

Susan Polis Schutz

" I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. "

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

" The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn. "

Martin O'Malley

" Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.' "