Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.
We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.
Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
