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.
In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
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.
I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
