The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
Eli Broad
Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.
Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life... →
The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.
The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with... →
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Joseph Brodsky
Man is what he reads.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow... →
Charlotte Bronte
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've... →
Anita Brookner
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired... →
Gwendolyn Brooks