Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.
As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.
I felt like I was selling a product of the University of Georgia that's really special and really special to me as far as the education you can get, the development you can get, and the league we play in. That's what I've sold.
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling.
Education reforms must be the priority for governments.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.
I've never been a big believer in formal education.
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.
Now, women are expected to be equal to men in so many capacities - financially, career-wise, in education - yet the one disconnect was, and is, with relationships.
My parents didn't speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the law.
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
