By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything – whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
To keep attracting good new jobs, we must invest in more job training and education to prepare young people and workers at every age for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
Education is the best economic policy there is.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.
I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
My mom and dad were ‘helicopter parents,’ literally. Meaning, I didn’t have a nanny, so I went up in the helicopter. My entire early childhood education consisted of tagging along while they reported on car accidents, multiple-alarm fires, and shootouts.
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination – these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will – that’s just the bottom line.
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That’s an education in itself.
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
Education has to be more than tests and formulas.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Segregation has no place in the education system.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Because I’ve never had any higher education of any sort, I’ve never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don’t.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
I chose to support Purpose Prep because it is important for every child to have the opportunity to receive a great education, and the Purpose Prep programs are designed for underprivileged children in my hometown to have access to those services.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.
Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
I was supposed to move into a new place and it fell through. So for five months before Sex Education, I was couch-surfing among all my friends. I didn’t have a home.
Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
Education is what you learn after you leave school.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I’ve worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It’s the only thing I’m really leaving them – a good education.
We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.
Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education – education that remains elusive for too many Americans.
