"Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"Opportunity makes a thief"

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run"

"Freedom can occur only through education"

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black"