In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world's population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation.

Óscar Arias

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

Education is the development of power and ideal.

W. E. B. Du Bois

In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

David Christian

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.