Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending.
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.
We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.'
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.
When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
