No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
Interpretation
Education should be accessible to everyone without the burden of excessive debt.
Gordon Brown highlights the barriers that financial concerns can create for individuals aspiring to pursue higher education. He emphasizes that fear of unaffordable tuition and overwhelming debt should not prevent people from striving to reach their full potential and achieving their educational goals.
In practice
During a graduation speech, to encourage students to pursue their dreams regardless of financial constraints.
Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge
While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support.
To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots.
Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.
You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family.
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
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