If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.
We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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.
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
The great Comrade Kim Jong Il provided energetic guidance to defend and honour Comrade Kim Il Sung's idea of and exploits in socialist rural construction and make UAWK organizations creditably perform their duties as organizations for ideological education.
As conservatives, we cannot just concede education over to the Democrats. We really need to be actively involved. And that's why I've been such a proponent of school choice and the other options that are out there, because the Left is clearly out there driving the agenda, trying to shape the minds of the next generation.
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
