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Education

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I dont think I wouldve done as good without an education. – Bobby Vinton

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people cant let that happen. – Kerry Washington

As a Member of Congress, Ive continued my familys tradition of focusing on education. – Mark Kennedy

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions. – Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individuals future success or to our nations prosperity than education. – Mark Kennedy

Ive got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks its what children bring into school with them. – Johann Lamont

Im on Governor Gray Davis California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools. – Sally Kirkland

People who dont read seem to me mysterious. I dont know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. – Nina Bawden

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the worlds children. – Carol Bellamy

The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. – Pierre Bourdieu

Im a big believer in education, period. – Jon Secada

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. Its in the education business. – Nicholas Negroponte

They basically said that if I didnt show up for school theyd mark me present, they wouldnt send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month Id go out to Jamaica, but I didnt take it seriously. – Dave Van Ronk

What you have in most education software is that theyre catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience. – Salman Khan

But I didnt really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and dont enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active. – Amanda Burton

Maybe its a tired tale, but without an education, youre not going to go anywhere. – H. G. Bissinger

In more than 20 years Ive spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. – H. G. Bissinger

In my family, there was one cardinal priority – education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didnt have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. – Eva Longoria

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their childrens education. – Arne Duncan

If bringing up the next generation is important, why arent they the best qualified, the best paid? Why arent we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services? – Estelle Morris