“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”
~ Tom Brokaw

More on education:
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”
~ Mark Twain
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
~Maimonides
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
~ Albert Einstein
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Education /ˌejəˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun
1- the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. “a new system of public education”
2- an enlightening experience. “a day with those kids was an education in patience and forbearance”