Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
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.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
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.
It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
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.
