#higher education

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#education #elementary #ensure #every #high-quality

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#because #big #close #discouragement #education

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#because #behind #california #china #competitive

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education. ↗

— John Conyers

#chosen #costs #education #higher #higher education

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education. ↗

— Bill Owens

#any #capita #college #colorado #degrees

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. ↗

— Angela Davis

#education #especially #found #higher #higher education

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#colored #done #education #elementary #higher

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. ↗

— Bob Taft

#education #ensure #higher #higher education #must

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing. ↗

— Vince Cable

#determined #education #footing #government #grow