Quotes: Education

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The education cuts in the President’s budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

My family gave me the best in education.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people – the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women’s education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.