From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FE...
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
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.
I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.
You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.
