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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

Of course their [Cuba's] economy is terrible, but they have Health Care and education.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

Look where we stand in the world on education. We're at the bottom of the list. So it's obviously not working.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.

Free and quality education is a fundamental liberty

And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed.

I went to a high school that was so dangerous the school newspaper had an obituary column.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.