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.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
