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" You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. "

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" I'm not a person who likes to confront. "

" Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. "

" Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up. "

" My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. "

" A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. 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

" If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. "

" Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. "

" I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. "

" I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. "

" While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize. "

Sheldon Lee Glashow

" Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "

" Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

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

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

" We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. "

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

" 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. "

" Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. "

" The highest result of education is tolerance. "

" Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete. "

" Governments never learn. Only people learn. "

Milton Friedman

" An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. "

" Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. "

" Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative. "

" Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. "

" Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.