Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
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.
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
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.
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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.
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.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
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.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.