My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.