An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
Kinky Friedman

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
Al Gore

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I've never been a big believer in formal education.
Megan Fox

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
Sandra Day O'Connor

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
Sandra Day O'Connor

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
Billy Sunday

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris