Skip to content

Education Quote by Bev Perdue

“At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.” quote by Bev Perdue — Download Open image

“At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Education End of the day Ends Future work Get better Heard Investing Investment Republican The end of the day Workforce

More by Bev Perdue

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

Image

President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for…

Image

I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Image

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Image

Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the…

Image

From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering…

Image

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And…

Image

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is…

Image

I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever…

Image

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak…

Image

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep…

Image

Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women…

Image

Explore all 14 Bev Perdue quotes

More Education quotes

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

Image

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

Alfred North Whitehead

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Image

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very…

Image

“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even…

Nicholas Sparks

Image

“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able…

Ioannes Amos Commenius

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle

Image

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really…

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…

Chuck Palahniuk

Image

“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,…

Image

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

Image

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his…

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Image

Browse all 31,525 Education quotes