3 December 2020 Chris Van Hollen One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
3 December 2020 Blanche Lincoln Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
3 December 2020 John Conyers The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
3 December 2020 will.i.am There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They’re lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
3 December 2020 Dean Kamen I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
3 December 2020 Wynton Marsalis I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don’t want to do.
3 December 2020 Spike Lee I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
3 December 2020 Michael N. Castle This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates – is they just keeping giving back.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Granholm To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
3 December 2020 Nicholas Negroponte We’ve been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
3 December 2020 Jane Rule The message of women’s liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
3 December 2020 Taylor Caldwell I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
3 December 2020 John Dewey The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
3 December 2020 Carol Bellamy The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
3 December 2020 Charles Schumer So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
3 December 2020 Aleister Crowley To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
3 December 2020 Alexis Herman Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
3 December 2020 Michael N. Castle Delaware State began as a school bent on service – teaching education, social services and nursing.
