Quotes About Education

Education needs to be our state's top priority.

Unless we make computer science a priority, we risk making gender, class, and racial disparities worse as jobs flow to those with a computer science background.

As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, making higher education more affordable and accessible is a top priority of mine.

As adults, we realize that the real future lies in the hands of our children and grandchildren. Our first priority should be the nurturing and education of America's youth.

National Cancer Prevention Day, Feb. 4, is a great opportunity to focus our attention on what should be an American priority.

My first priority is my children, and when Brielle's grades were failing, I made it a big, big deal!

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

Although I love working and making movies and that will always be the priority, I really do love continuing my education. It's great to be active and learning instead of sitting around waiting for a phone call for the next project.

I do see the ministry of Human Resources Development through the prism of gender. I see it through the prism of capabilities.

I hated high school. It was a prison.

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

I got my GED in prison.

Every child should feel safe at school without feeling like a prisoner.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

I don't believe in private education.

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

I went to Catholic school for the cheapest private education.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.