I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.
— Peggy Whitson
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.
— Paulo Freire
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
I want to make sure that teenage girls know that if you decide to keep your child, you have to get an education. You have to have a plan A, B, and C. Make sure you have a good support system. If all those things are not in place, it's going to be very, very hard - very, very lonely.
— Paula Garces
I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining what I saw around me. It was the Great Depression.
— Paul Samuelson
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.
— Paul Ryan
Canadians would not tolerate it if they really knew there was a whole generation of aboriginal Canadians who have a chance at a better education and are being denied it.
— Paul Martin
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.
— Paul Hoffman
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
— Paul Hawken
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
— Paul Farmer
The cellphone is humanity's biggest platform. If we can't use it to change education or health care, then shame on us.
— Paul E. Jacobs
My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
— Paul Anka
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
— Patty Murray
Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
— Patrick Murphy
Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
— Patricia A. Woertz
The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.
— Pankaj Mishra
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
— Pearl S. Buck
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
— Pauline Phillips
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
— Paul Wellstone
Good questions outrank easy answers.
I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.
— Paul Rand
If you take a look at the breaches of rights, whether it's the underfunding of education or health care, and all these issues which accentuate the poverty of Canada's indigenous people, and the lack of reaction to them - it becomes clear that if Canadians understood what's at stake, they wouldn't stand for it.
We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.
— Paul Henderson
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.
When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.
— Paul Cook
I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
— Patrick J. Kennedy
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
— Patrice Motsepe
Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.
— Pamela Druckerman
Education is freedom.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.
— Pauline Neville-Jones
I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.
— Paul Watson
I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.
— Paul Sadler
We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.
— Paul Nehlen
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
— Paul LePage
Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.
I definitely had a top-notch education.
— Paul Giamatti
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
— Paul Erdos
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
— Paul Berg
I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.
The education of going through the 'Thor' experience was great.
— Patty Jenkins
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
— Patricia Schroeder
Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
— Parker Palmer
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
