A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
— Vladimir Putin
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
— Virginia Woolf
Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.
— Vir Das
Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?
— Vint Cerf
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
— Vincent Tan
Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.
— Vincent Frank
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
— Vikas Swarup
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
— Vidal Sassoon
Half the point of education is to build peer groups and social bonds.
— Victoria Coren Mitchell
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
— Victor Hugo
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.
— Valerie Jarrett
Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.
— Vaclav Smil
Education lays a strong foundation. I was keen on films, but my mother insisted on me finding all about the line I was planning to take. I am into films but I know my Plan B is ready, just in case.
— Vaani Kapoor
Coming back to Delhi is always special. This is the place I'd started my journey from and became independent. Be it my career or my education, I learnt everything about life from this city, and it has made me who I am today.
— Urvashi Rautela
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
— Ulrich Beck
A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.
— Tyler Oakley
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
— Virginia Gildersleeve
August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at McDonald's.
— Viola Davis
Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.
Knife crime isn't an issue that's going to go away just because of repression and police action. Of course we need to support the forces, but it's linked to prevention, and prevention often comes through education.
— Vincent Kompany
For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
— Vince Cable
Education is a basic necessity.
— Vijay Sethupathi
In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
— Victoria Wood
Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
— Victoria Aveyard
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
I'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to study all sorts of things.
Education is the key to a bright future.
I think imparting sex education to children is important.
I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.
— Tyson Fury
For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.
— Tyler Hamilton
I learned that education and sport are the bedrock for any person, but education comes first, no doubt about it.
— Vitor Belfort
I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.
— Virgil Abloh
One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
— Vinod Khosla
Belgium's 1986 team is like the Christmas movie that they bring out every single year. That World Cup is something we get to see and hear about all the time. It is part of our general education in Belgium.
Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
— Vidya Balan
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
— Victor LaValle
The psychology of education is all about how the society gets benefited from it.
— Vetrimaaran
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
— Vanessa Carlton
We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
— Val McDermid
I am grateful to my mother for insisting that I complete my education.
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
— Uta Hagen
I've always done what was asked of me for a social cause. Tried to bring visibility to issues of health and education.
— Urmila Matondkar
But when you talk about the education and you talk about the lack of recreation for kids to do, I mean, it's second to none in New Orleans when you talk about the lack of opportunities for young people. And it's not just black kids, it's white kids. It's Asian kids. I had Vietnamese kids in my class that had lack of opportunities.
— Tyrann Mathieu
