“The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.”
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“In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.”
“I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.”
“My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.”
“Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.”
“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.”
“I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.”
“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.”
“I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.”
“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.”
“The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.”
“The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.”
“One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.”
“I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.”
“But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.”
“Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.”
“Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.”
“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.”
“Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.”
“Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.”
“One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.”
“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.”
“I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!”
“I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.”