Education Quotes
“Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.”
“I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.”
-- Thabo Mbeki
“State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.”
-- Arne Duncan
“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.”
-- Nancy Astor
“Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.”
-- Carol Bellamy
“Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.”
-- Paul Wellstone
“When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.”
-- Arlen Specter