I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.