Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

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

Education whatever else it should or should not be must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education healthcare and retirement.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford he should be carried forward at the public expense.

If you know how to read you have a complete education about life then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers and we should keep it that way.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.