Patricia Neal

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

I came in early every day for six months till I intercepted the letter from UCLA saying they’d never heard of me. I replaced it with a letter that said I’d graduated.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake — but for the future of our nation’s sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness — for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy — for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government – for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.