Ruth J. Simmons Quotes

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

Education is not so important as people think.

I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

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.

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Education has always been very important to me.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.