There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
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.
We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginn...
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.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.
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.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our natio...
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.
I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, ...
