946 private quotes tagged education

“The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.” — Ron Kind

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“What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.” — Michael Gove

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“And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.” — Terrence Howard

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“Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.” — Meg Whitman

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“After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.” — Michael N. Castle

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“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.” — Michael N. Castle

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“By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.” — Michael N. Castle

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“I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.” — Barbara Walters

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“They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.” — Michael N. Castle

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“The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.” — Michael Gove

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“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.” — James S. Coleman

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“Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.” — Major Owens

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“I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.” — Skeet Ulrich

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“My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.” — Baz Luhrmann

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“When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.” — Omar Bongo

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“I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.” — Peter Brimelow

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“I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.” — Debbie Stabenow

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“I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.” — Ellen Ochoa

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“The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.” — Jane Rule

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“My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.” — Debra Messing

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“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.” — Alice Englert

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“Health and education are always issues.” — Helen Clark

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“It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.” — Clyde Tombaugh

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“Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.” — Solomon Ortiz

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“If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.” — Edmund Barton

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