For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.
Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching ‘One Day’ is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
We need to inject humanism into our AI education and research by injecting all walks of life into the process.
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
The five different areas in which boys are in crisis – education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness – are handled by different portions of the government.
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.
In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children’s education.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don’t have to choose one.
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
I look back and see the kids who made it through school – it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.
Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we’d never before anticipated.
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn’t visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn’t work.
