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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. ”
Republican politicians often evoke the Bible when it suits their purposes. But they disregard some of its most important teachings when formulating policy. This includes the story of Noah's Ark. ”
What makes a successful country is when you invest in the people of the country - whether it's education, health care, job training - and you rebuild a clean America to provide the kind of infrastructure that will be sustainable and let us grow. ”
I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education. ”
Education is for growth and fulfillment. ”
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. ”
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. ”
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class. ”
When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class. ”
Companies are recognizing that paid leave reduces training and turnover costs, that it's a formula for recruiting and retaining good workers. ”