Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
— Wendy Kopp
Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
— Wendy Davis
Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
— Wendell Phillips
We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportunities of the Asian Century. A skilled workforce and a strong, productive and resilient economy. We know we'll only win the economic race in the Asian Century if we win the education race.
— Wayne Swan
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
— Wavy Gravy
I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
— Warren Bennis
You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
— Walter Isaacson
Few things are as essential as education.
— Walter Annenberg
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.
Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
Education is the mother of leadership.
— Wendell Willkie
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
People who face discrimination due to the color of their skin, are often obstructed by institutional barriers across our society - from education and housing, to employment and healthcare, to voting rights and the criminal justice system.
— Wayne Messam
The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
— Warren Farrell
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
— Wangari Maathai
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
— Walter Dean Myers
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
— Walt Disney
Education is the development of power and ideal.
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
Nature has always had more force than education.
— Voltaire
It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
Responsibility educates.
I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
— Weili Dai
My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
— Walter Scott
In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
— Wallace Shawn
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
