Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds widen their horizons inflame their intellects teach them to think straight if possible.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money buy things build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think not to feel.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice theory humanities. And nowadays music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

As a former high school teacher I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do not only for our children but for the benefit of our whole community.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises but let those who know our childrens' names- parents teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans acquiring discipline organizing thoughts devoting attention to detail and learning to be self critical.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.