Further Education should be about the ability to learn not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
In fact I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture here in America so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization even on a small level.
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education started to learn then went on the pill the whole thing and so there are today a lot more women writers editors producers and so a lot more women's stories. God the BBC's practically run by women.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.