Education Quotes
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We'll be examining and auditing and reviewing all of the programs of the department and really figuring out what is the core mission and how can the federal department of education really support and enhance the role of the departments in the states.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
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My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.
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Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.
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They support me and they are encouraging me to move forward and to continue my campaign for girls' education.
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I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?
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Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
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I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
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Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
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For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic 'Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to 'just cheer up') have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.
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The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
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I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
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I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.
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I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.
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What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.
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I know more Australian people than I know New Zealand persons. I feel like there's a real gap in my education.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
