"The growth for education and training will be in continuing adult education. Online delivery is the trigger for this growth, but the demand for lifetime education stems from profound changes in society. We live in an economy where knowledge, not buildings and machinery, is the chief resource and where knowledge-workers make up the biggest part of the work force."

"I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation."

"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes."

"A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows."

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

"I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for."

"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."

"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."

"Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education"

"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree."

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."

"Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire."

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

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

"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

"Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!" 

“It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!”