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" The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. "

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" I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. "

Sandra Day O'Connor

" I need to complete my homework on time. "

Malala Yousafzai

" All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well. "

Peter Diamandis

" 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. "

" We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. "

Maria Montessori

" You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops. "

" I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

" The mere imparting of information is not education. "

Carter G. Woodson

" Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum. "

" To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. "

Thomas Jefferson

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

Phillip E. Johnson

" Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. "

" There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. "

" To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. "

" Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. "

" 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 cannot live without books. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. "

Barbara Mikulski

" Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other. "

" Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars. "

" 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

" Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

Albert Einstein

" The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. "

Carter G. Woodson

" Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. "

" The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. "

Leonard Boswell

" If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. "

Cornelius Vanderbilt

" There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward. "

" Man makes holy what he believes. "