“It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity esc…”— Sam Houston, famoustexans.com
“School is too important at your age. Now, I don’t know how fully convinced you are of the importance of learning, but in due time you will realize the importance of school.”— Meyer Lansky, tbo.com
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.”— Brigham Young, goodreads.com
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”— Brigham Young, goodreads.com
“I’m not dismissing the value of higher education; I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.”— Aaron Sorkin, amazon.com
“School should feel like prison. School should make you wanna bust out and do something different with your life.”— Tom Kapinos, Floyd Mooney, Jay Pharoah, imdb.com
“Racism does exist. It is always going to exist, but until we as a people stop killing each other and stop not getting our education we are never going to be successful.”— Charles Barkley, cnn.com
“The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training f…”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“We started them to school. They learned to read. They learned to work simple arithmetic problems. Now some of our plantation owners can't figure the poor devils out of everything at the close of each year.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up wi…”— Timothy Leary, en.wikiquote.org
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”— John Milton, en.wikiquote.org
“An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“I was never sent to school...it would have rubbed off some of the originality (if I had not died of shyness or been killed with over pressure).”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com