I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.