Ben Carson Quotes

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

School-houses are the republican line of fortifications

The less that is applied to education, the less they [the people] will have to pay in taxation

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

That there be equal educational opportunities for all and in all the States, and that public school expenditure be the same for Negro and white child.

An act to provide for the education of the poor, gratis