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" When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. "

Desiderius Erasmus

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" The highest result of education is tolerance. "

" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "

" It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. "

Albert Einstein

" You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. "

" Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. "

" Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal. "

" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "

Michelle Alexander

" Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. "

" For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough. "

" Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get. "

" Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. "

" Good questions outrank easy answers. "

" A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want. "

" Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. "

Shakuntala Devi

" As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. "

" It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education. "

" Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations. "

" 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. "

" I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. "

" Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. "

" Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. "

" Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance. "

" Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. "

" Books, the children of the brain. "

" Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. "

" Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. "

James A. Garfield