For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr. ) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.
Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.
That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Health and education are always issues.
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.
Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late. . . We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education. . . We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.
Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.
