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

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.