Education has to be more than tests and formulas.
I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
Ensuring a better future for all South Africans will require increased access to higher education, a stronger and fairer labour market, deeper participation in regional markets, and a regulatory framework that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to thrive.
We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don't know.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.
We need education across the board on all fronts.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?
Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
