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" You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. "

Tammy Faye Bakker

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" I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it. "

" 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. "

" Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. "

Nicholas Kristof

" Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. "

" My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish. "

Christian de Duve

" Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" 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. "

" How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice! "

" Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. "

" Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. "

" The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective. "

" After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job. "

Jackie Robinson

" Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. "

Hillary Clinton

" One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so. "

Christine Gregoire

" 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

" Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" I am very much a person who likes to change with the times. Education is what it is all about. "

" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "

" Common Core is a big win for education. "

" Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all. "

" Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive. "

" A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice. "

John Paul Jones

" 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

" In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. "

" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

" My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. "

" The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change. "

" I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. "

" The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "