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.
Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.
There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.
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