If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.
We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.
I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
