“Education is the mother of leadership.”– Wendell Willkie Related Quotes “America is the best half-educated country in the world.”– Nicholas M. Butler “Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can’t let that happen.”– Kerry Washington “No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”– Plato