Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet but maybe one day.

My father who was from a wealthy family and highly educated a lawyer Yale and Columbia walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother a seventh grade graduate who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents and immigrants like them were known as '£10 poms.' Back then the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Just in general any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated because then they couldn't control them as easily.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.