We have been learning since we were children how to make money buy things build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think not to feel.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice theory humanities. And nowadays music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

As a former high school teacher I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do not only for our children but for the benefit of our whole community.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises but let those who know our childrens' names- parents teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans acquiring discipline organizing thoughts devoting attention to detail and learning to be self critical.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities so that head teachers can decide what's truly important because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education social services and nursing.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

But the fact is no matter how good the teacher how small the class how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota and I was a teacher for about a minute.

A lot of children like I did move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get detention worrying about letting people down your parents teachers.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Misdirected focus on paperwork on procedures and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.