But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
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.
My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.
Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.
I got an early education from television.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both.
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide skills, services, and education for middle-class Americans rather than providing tax breaks for large corporations.
I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts.
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
