| "The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people." »William John Bennett |
| "Well, Mr. secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill" »Robert C. Byrd |
| "Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word." »Alan Simpson |
| "Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald |
| "If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it." »Joe Moore |
| "Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people." »George Pratt Shultz |
| "When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education." »Paul Karl Feyerabend |
| "The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." »Paul E. Gray |
| "The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune." »Unknown |
| "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk |
| "I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel secretary of State visit to Moscow)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least." »David P Gardner |
| "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else." »John W. Gardner |
| "You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people" »Beah Richards |
| "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune." »Jim Rohn |
| "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Cicero |
| "To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." »Albert Wiggam |
| "We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it." »Robert Hutchins |
| "It is only the ignorant who despise education." »Publilius Syrus |
| "What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better." »Wendell Phillips |
| "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." »Derek Curtis Bok |
| "education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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