We have been learning since we were children how to make money buy things build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think not to feel.
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica but I didn't take it seriously.
In regard to education something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice theory humanities. And nowadays music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
And my career the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
As a former high school teacher I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do not only for our children but for the benefit of our whole community.
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education which enables a better life for women.
Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises but let those who know our childrens' names- parents teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that.
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education that anything's possible.
There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country Republican Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.
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.
You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So I promise you every day I am going to talk about jobs spending and education.
The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education especially higher education.
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.
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family there's lots of children seven brothers two sisters grew up together fighting with each other went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
I mean being a child was being a child was being a creature without power without pocket money without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.