To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
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.
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.
The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.
I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.
I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
