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.