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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

William Jennings Bryan

Lawyer · American · 1860 – 1925

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Anthony Weiner

Politician · American · b. 1964

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

Franz Boas

Scientist · American · 1858 – 1942

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

James Payn

Novelist · English · 1830 – 1898

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Politician · American · b. 1967

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

James Cronin

Physicist · American · b. 1931

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

William Glasser

Psychologist · American

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

James Cronin

Physicist · American · b. 1931

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Paul Wellstone

Politician · American · 1944 – 2002

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

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

William S. Burroughs

Writer · American · 1914 – 1997

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Armstrong Williams

Journalist · American · b. 1959

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

James Payn

Novelist · English · 1830 – 1898

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

Sue Johanson

Writer · Canadian

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

Businessman · American · b. 1935

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Joe Baca

Politician · American · b. 1947

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Jeffrey Archer

Politician · English · b. 1940

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

President · American · 1831 – 1881

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Lord Mountbatten

Soldier · British · 1900 – 1979

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

James Cronin

Physicist · American · b. 1931

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Agnes Repplier

Writer · American · 1855 – 1950

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Poet · Irish · 1865 – 1939

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Susan George

Activist · American · b. 1950

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

Karen Hughes

Politician · American · b. 1956

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Joe Baca

Politician · American · b. 1947

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

Richard Linklater

Director · American · b. 1960

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Bob Riley

Politician · American

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Sargent Shriver

Politician · American · b. 1915

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

William Glasser

Psychologist · American

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

Roy Romer

Politician · American · b. 1928

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Sarah Zettel

Author · American · b. 1966

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Jacques Barzun

Educator · American · b. 1907

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

Robert M. Hutchins

Educator · American · 1899 – 1977

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

Leader · American · 1801 – 1877

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

David Brainerd

Clergyman · American

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

Writer · English · b. 1919

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Phillip E. Johnson

Educator · American

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Aeschylus

Poet · Greek

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

Stephen Leacock

Economist · Canadian · 1869 – 1944

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Judge · American · 1841 – 1935

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Publisher · American · 1917 – 1990

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Doug Larson

Cartoonist · American

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

Dramatist · English

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Francis Bacon

Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Frederick William Robertson

Clergyman · English · 1816 – 1853

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Politician · b. 1939

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

Sally Ride

Astronaut · American · b. 1951

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