Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
The average Ph. D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Education can, and should be, dangerous.
All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.
When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
If we are wise, we never leave school.
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue. . . . In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Information may be free, but an education is priceless.
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.
