Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing has no education no money lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another through sheer force of will he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

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

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know about something you do not want to know.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

It is well to read everything of something and something of everything.