Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.