"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." ― John F. Kennedy Topic(s): Education Tags: education More From John F. Kennedy "If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s." "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." More In Education "I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place."― Sophia Bush "If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."― Heinrich Heine "I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have."― George J. Mitchell