My father is a real idealist and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning my father would spare no expense.

In the new economy information education and motivation are everything.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything from speaking to dying.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories from education to infrastructure.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young from their education to their successful independence to their sexual self-knowledge.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm friendly intellectual relationship.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

In true education anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy the blunder of a servant a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto then must not be confined to matters of religion education and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

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.

Positive rights are the right to shelter the right to education the right to health care the right to a living wage. These things are - these are I would call them more properly political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

You know nothing is more important than education because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can but then by God do something. Don't just stand there make it happen.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

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

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.