The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public 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. Rick Santorum on education
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. David Miliband on education
I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. Jenny Eclair on education
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me. Graham Norton on education
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. Todd English on education
In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice. Scott Walker on education
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues. Ai Weiwei on education
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. Clay Aiken on education
Education is a precondition to survival in America today. Marian Wright Edelman on education
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education. Marian Wright Edelman on education
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Mary Astell on education
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. John Jay Hooker on education
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. Gaston Caperton on education
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. Chris Van Hollen on education
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton. Wallace Shawn on education
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. Jeffrey Archer on education
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. George Will on education
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. Edsger Dijkstra on education
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. Kathleen Blanco on education
The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government. Warren Farrell on education