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" The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. "

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" President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education. "

George Miller

Passion

Education

Children

" Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. "

" You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. "

" A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity. "

" 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. "

" Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. "

" In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? "

" For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things. "

" I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. "

" You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. "

" Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope. "

" As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people. "

" I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away. "

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

" Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. "

" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "

" It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be. "

" Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you. "

" Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' "

" The Republican majority, left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000, was a party committed to limited government and restoring the balances of federalism with the states. Clearly, President Bush has had a different vision, and that vision has resulted in education and welfare policies that have increased the size and scope of government. "

" The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation. "

" To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. "

" No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. "

" My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties. "

" You could get an entire computer science education for free right now. "

" Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. "

Parker Palmer

Life

Challenges

" Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. "

" We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. "

" Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Work

Live

Hard Work

" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "