An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.
The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.
Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.
How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.
However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.
I do have investments, investments in new jobs, investments in education, skill training, and the opportunities for people to get ahead and stay ahead. That's the kind of approach that will work.
An investment in education always pays the highest returns.
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