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We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.
I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
In my spare time, I volunteer at my daughters' schools so I can stay involved with the activities and parent/teacher community.
After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.
I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.
I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.
There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.