Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way and I've been watching this for a longtime.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations whether they involve welfare youth education care of the sick and elderly or even protection against violence and abuse.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

To defend a country you need an army but to defend a civilization you need education.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers good teachers from good schools and asked them to define the word education there would be very little general agreement.

If you improve education by teaching for competence eliminating schooling and connecting with students the test scores will improve.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I pledge to you today that as president in my first budget I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

When I was in school my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

I ain't got much education but I got some sense.

When I was four years old my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there and it will last forever.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Poor people people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools equipped with tortures called an education.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I think that anybody that stays in school gets good grades pays the price I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education they should be able to do that.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Education is not so important as people think.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.