By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

If it is the duty of the State to educate it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education namely the taxation out of which education is provided.

In the world today a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787 but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

Let us not in the eagerness of our haste to educate forget all the ends of education.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island I am public-school educated.