In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.
The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.
Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.
There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.