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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

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

Education is not so important as people think.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 are not got much education, but I got some sense.

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 did not do it by missing school.

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

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