My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.
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.
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
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.
