NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

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

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.