I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
My wife and I believe that there's nothing we do together as a community that's more important than education.
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.
I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.
As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.
Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.
If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's not something you need nine levels of education for. It's really an identity that you claim for yourself, and then you have to make yourself one.
We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.
If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.