There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs obesity diabetes homelessness and lack of good education.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers good teachers from good schools and asked them to define the word education there would be very little general agreement.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there and it will last forever.

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.

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.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

If you go and talk to most people they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say 'Oh well that must be true.'

There is nothing of any consequence in education in the economy in city planning in social policy that does not concern black people.

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment and the investment is in health and education.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it and therefore character is dependent upon education and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

There is not to be found in all history any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men of such unquestioned good sense education and learning as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Since my education I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

In the government schools which are referred to as public schools Indian policy has been instituted there and its a policy where they do not encourage in fact discourage critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

Television could perform a great service in mass education but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

For every successful actor or actress there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Education therefore is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression as a normality and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.