In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villagers.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.