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" The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. "

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" 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. "

" Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" 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

" I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. "

" Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. "

Billie Joe Armstrong

" On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. "

" All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. "

" Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations. "

" I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being. "

Malala Yousafzai

" If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. "

" 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. "

" Nothing is more important, certainly during these times of artificial intelligence, than our public education. And as it continues to grow and evolve, I think you and I know this is going to be critical that we are constantly training and retraining and creating these next-generation jobs. "

" 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

" Every educated person is a future enemy. "

" The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination. "

" The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy. "

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

" Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics. "

" I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. "

" Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student. "

Randi Weingarten

" The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. "

Albert Einstein

" The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. "

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

" I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. "

" Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. "

" I am a part of everything that I have read. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. "

" I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing. "

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

Phillip E. Johnson