#education

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#alcohol #cigarettes #control #education #family

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#adulthood #children #could #designed #educational

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#alone #anymore #businesses #capital #costs

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#environmental #first #giving #grade #hard

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#also #alternative #arts #arts education #build

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #arts education #california #education #especially

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#already #anxious #aware #because #days

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#citizens #deprive #education #exposure #good

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#around #breakthroughs #cannot #clock #compute

Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina. ↗

— Bev Perdue

#carolina #changed #changing #chose #could