Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Copy Quote View & ShareJust as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
Copy Quote View & ShareEducation is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Copy Quote View & ShareBefore 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
Copy Quote View & ShareEducation is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.
Copy Quote View & ShareHealthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.
Copy Quote View & SharePublic education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.
Copy Quote View & ShareBusinesses must ensure that inclusivity and accessibility is imbedded in the education of tomorrow's planners and designers, and they must increase the amount of consumer information available to the public, and enable the production and swift take up of products and services disabled people want and need.
Copy Quote View & ShareFormal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.
Copy Quote View & ShareA high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
Copy Quote View & ShareOne of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.
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