We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia Woolf

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Dan Quayle

Very likely education does not make very much difference.
Gertrude Stein

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Michelle Obama

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce