The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.