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

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" The giving of love is an education in itself. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard. "

" If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. "

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

Robert M. Hutchins

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

" Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children. "

" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "

" Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. "

" 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. "

" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "

Sebastian Thrun

" 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

" The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. "

" I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity. "

" If you have four years to complete your college education, do it. "

College Education

" In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states. "

" A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone. "

" I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. "

" People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things. "

" Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model. "

" Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. "

" My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard. "

Gretchen Bleiler

" Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. "

" Martial arts should be part of every girl's education. "

" If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. "

" Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. "

Gustave Flaubert

" We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives. "

" The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance. "

Winnie Byanyima