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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.

Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.