“I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.”

“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”

“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

“In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.”

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”

“A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.”

“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”