“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.”

“I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.”

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

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

“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”

“See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.”

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”

“Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.”

“Education is for growth and fulfillment.”

“Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.”

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

“Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.”

“Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.”

“It is always in season for old men to learn.”

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

“Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

“All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.”