Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questi...
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Af...
John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
