Education Quotes
“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”
“We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.”
-- Bob Taft
“The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.”
-- Ron Lewis
“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.”
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.”
-- Anna Friel
“To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.”
-- Jennifer Granholm
“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.”
-- Thomas Huxley