No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.