I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.
Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relati...
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
Better educated or financially comfortable people often smile more than less educated or economically distressed people.
