Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.
I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.
No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.
As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'
My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
