3 December 2020 Estelle Morris Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.
3 December 2020 Gaston Caperton The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
3 December 2020 Hugh Mackay The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what’s actually happening to our culture?
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
3 December 2020 Barbara Walters I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
3 December 2020 James Payn In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
3 December 2020 Amber Tamblyn I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
3 December 2020 Tallulah Bankhead I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
3 December 2020 Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
3 December 2020 Bill Richardson The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
3 December 2020 Bobby Scott No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
3 December 2020 H. G. Bissinger In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
3 December 2020 Glenda Jackson It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that’s not the world we live in.
3 December 2020 Susan George The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
3 December 2020 Bryant McGill The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
3 December 2020 David Suzuki Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I’m lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what’s out there and see what’s happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
3 December 2020 Clay Aiken 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.
3 December 2020 Arabella Weir Look, I want what’s good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can’t they all just do what I say when I know I’m right?
3 December 2020 Angela Bassett When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master’s and I didn’t do it by missing school.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
