“What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.”

“I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.”

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”

“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.”

“Education liberates a woman.”

“Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.”

“I don't know if I'm a national education figure.”