My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge – like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly. – Eric Idle
Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry. – Naveen Jain
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness – self-consciousness about one’s education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options. – E. L. Konigsburg
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. – Gavin Newsom
The economy is the start and end of everything. You can’t have successful education reform or any other reform if you don’t have a strong economy. – David Cameron
The education cuts in the President’s budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable. – Chaka Fattah
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another. – Estelle Morris
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. – Epictetus
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are – these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. – P. J. O’Rourke
I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management. – Mike McCue
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. – Earl Warren
Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can’t quite grasp that. – Ed Speleers
Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century. – David Puttnam
If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it’s pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it’s going to be as strong 20 years from now? – Dan Malloy
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. – Fannie Farmer
College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah’s government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before. – Gary Herbert
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren’t educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a ‘Reader’s Digest’ condensed book. Can you imagine? – Dawn Steel
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education – and less on alcohol and cigarettes. – Dee Dee Myers
We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery. – Donald Evans
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education. – George Miller
I look back and see the kids who made it through school – it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state. – Denise Juneau
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. – Dalai Lama
An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home. – Francois Hollande
