I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology. – Major Owens
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me. – Graham Norton
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. – Estelle Morris
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. – Dylan Thomas
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. – Dave Heineman
So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible. – Gordon Gee
If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas. – David Cameron
Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline – like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family. – Flea
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. – Evan Esar
Few things are more important to each individual’s future success or to our nation’s prosperity than education. – Mark Kennedy
I remember that – you know, I didn’t receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling. – Eduardo Galeano
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can’t balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm. – Paul Hawken
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. – Paulo Freire
One cannot understand what’s happening to women in the Middle East if they don’t realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of. – Fatema Mernissi
When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill. – Charlie Crist
If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don’t want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don’t make any difference in education. I want to stop that. – Gary Johnson
Waiter trainers claim that an investment in education pays off very quickly for restaurants. – David Sax
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well. – Eleanor Catton
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. – Ed Markey
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. – Frederick William Robertson
The kids think we’re wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz – they don’t know any other way. They’ve grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures. – Deborra-Lee Furness
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Each year, I say I’m going to go to school next year. It’s inevitable that I’ll end up getting my education. – Eliza Dushku
I got a crash-course education in urban fantasy. I suddenly had to look up all these other writers I was supposed to be in a genre with. I instantly had to become an expert in this genre I knew almost nothing about. – Carrie Vaughn
Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent. – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I would say that an understanding of man’s intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer. – Paul Rand
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. – Charles Handy
Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here. – Donna Shalala
