If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.