Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness. Vince Cable on education
For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing. Vince Cable on education
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. Julian Bond on education
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. Taylor Caldwell on education
If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. Stockwell Day on education
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art. Barry Commoner on education
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large. Andrea Jung on education
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. Melinda Gates on education
You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. Cory Booker on education
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. Joe Baca on education
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district. Joe Baca on education
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children. Joe Baca on education
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. Aldo Leopold on education
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. Barney Frank on education
Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class. Michelle Williams on education
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. William Godwin on education
Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation. Sherri Shepherd on education
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. Angela Merkel on education
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education. Carol Bellamy on education
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? Hugh Mackay on education