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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Of all the public services, education is the one I am most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it is morally right.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, You can not come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses. We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

The government has convinced parents that at some point it is no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to theublic 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.

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

I am very jealous of my daughter's education. She is 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.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that is a false choice.