“Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.”– Bobby Scott Related Quotes “I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”– Al McGuire “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”– Ed Markey “The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”– William Ralph Inge