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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it is really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It is destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men is skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.