“I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.”

“Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.”

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

“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.”