Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.
That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
