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I would like to talk more about education because I think these things absolutely do matter - education, NHS, public services.
Often parents themselves will not have liked education and may not have done well in education. But actually we need to explain to them what education can do for children.
If people think that local elections are won or lost on local education matters, that isn't happening.
I'm a big fan of regular school and regular education. I just learn better in a classroom where I can talk to other students. I want to go to prom and dances and have that social aspect.
'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts.
Our system of student finance has delivered the chance of a university education to vastly more people than ever before, and made it more likely that disadvantaged young people will be offered the chance to get a degree. But it has some very real flaws, some potentially fatal, that the government ignores at its peril.
A young person who does not go on to education or training will earn less throughout their lifetime.
Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.
The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.
One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
A lot of my film education when I was younger was basically whatever VHS tapes were in my house, and also the fact that I had premium cable and could watch 'American Beauty' at nine years old, which was super inappropriate.
It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.
When a person has work, she has income and can achieve financial self-sustainability. She can prioritize her family's health and education. Her standing in the community is lifted, and so is her confidence.
My administration will continue to fight to ensure every last student in Connecticut receives a high-quality education, whether in person or remotely.
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