The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools equipped with tortures called an education.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I think that anybody that stays in school gets good grades pays the price I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education they should be able to do that.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Education is not so important as people think.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity and there really was no judgment.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

I belong to the generation of workers who born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

You know in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French Swiss German and basically I got laughed at. I had education I had experience but got laughed at because I was American.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry in great plainness of living in exact modesty of dress.

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.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Growing up I was encouraged to get a good education get a real job doing something I enjoyed and should the opportunity present itself consider public service as just that: a chance to serve not an end in itself.

Strong advocacy for education health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

When the students are occupied they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.