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.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
I've said so often to pastors, if your sermon can't get out of your zip code throw it away. It has to be transcendent. If it can't be translated into another language then it's not a right reflection of the word of God.
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.
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