The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
~By Roger Moore ~
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
~By Alan Autry ~
Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
~By John Baldacci ~
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
~By Bennie Thompson ~
You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
~By Malcolm X ~
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
~By William Godwin ~
I did get a degree in special education.
~By Clay Aiken ~
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
~By James Payn ~
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
~By John Dryden ~
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.
~By Dave Heineman ~
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
~By Julian Bond ~
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
~By Nigel Short ~
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
~By A. Bartlett Giamatti ~
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
~By Karen Duffy ~
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
~By David McCullough ~
Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
~By Mahesh Bhupathi ~
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
~By William Glasser ~
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
~By Ed Pastor ~
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
~By Yvon Chouinard ~
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
~By Ellen Key ~
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
~By Gaston Caperton ~
Education, for me, has helped me in my music.
~By Bob Livingston ~
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
~By Ed Miliband ~
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
~By Robert E. Howard ~
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
~By Joe Baca ~
As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
~By Shelley Berman ~
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
~By Epictetus ~
Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
~By Megan Fox ~
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
~By Temple Grandin ~
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
~By Albert Shanker ~
Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.
~By Steven Chu ~
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
~By Jean Piaget ~
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
~By Brooks Atkinson ~
Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
~By Bobby Scott ~
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
~By Howard Aiken ~
I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
~By Anna Friel ~
We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
~By J. Irwin Miller ~
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
~By Ilya Ehrenburg ~
It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.
~By Alexis Herman ~
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
~By Bobby Unser ~
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
~By John Adams ~
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
~By Sam Houston ~
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
~By William J. Clinton ~
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
~By Allen Weinstein ~
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.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
~By Brad Sherman ~
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
~By William Wiley ~
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
~By Wavy Gravy ~
For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
~By Tim Matheson ~
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
~By E. Franklin Frazier ~
Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
~By Anita Roddick ~
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
~By Alan Perlis ~
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
~By Diogenes ~
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
~By Fannie Farmer ~
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
~By Jet Li ~
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
~By George Santayana ~
Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
~By B. R. Hayden ~
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
~By James S. Coleman ~
I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
~By Karen Hughes ~
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
~By Horace Mann ~
It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
~By Yuan T. Lee ~
In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
The mere imparting of information is not education.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
~By Renee Fleming ~
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
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