“Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.”

—  Tony Blair

We are 35th in the world league of education standards – 35th. At every level, radical improvement and reform.
"We are back as the people's party, says Blair", The Times, 2 October 1996.
1990s

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education." by Tony Blair?
Tony Blair photo
Tony Blair75
former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953

Related quotes

Tony Blair photo

“Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education. We are 35th in the world league of education standards – 35th. At every level, radical improvement and reform.”

Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

"We are back as the people's party, says Blair", The Times, 2 October 1996.
1990s

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero photo

“The main priority of the Socialist Party is education.”

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain

January, 13th 2003
As Opposition Leader

Rick Perry photo

“I will tell you: It's three agencies of government, when I get there, that are gone: Commerce, Education and the — what's the third one there? Let's see. — OK. So Commerce, Education and the — The third agency of government I would — I would do away with the Education, the — Commerce and — let's see — I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops.”

Rick Perry (1950) 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy

Republican presidential debate, 2011-11-09
2011

Kancha Ilaiah photo

“The dalit's main agenda is not reservations. My way of equality is English education. Even if 10% of our children got English education, the intellectual field would have changed. This country would have changed. My hope is education, not reservation — and I emphasize, English education”

Kancha Ilaiah (1952) Indian scholar, activist and writer

Quoted in at The Times Of India (15 February 2013) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/interviews/Kancha-Ilaiah-Even-if-10-dalit-children-got-English-education-India-would-change/articleshow/18503625.cms.

Halldór Laxness photo

“You have a faint education look about you. An educated girl never has an educated look. I cannot stand an educated look on women. It's Communism. Look at me, I passed my University entrance, but I don't show it.”

Halldór Laxness book The Atom Station

Madam Dulla
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)

Brigham Young photo

“You educate a man; you educate a Man. You educate a woman; you educate a Generation. ”

Brigham Young (1801–1877) Latter Day Saint movement leader

Norman Angell photo

“Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.”

Norman Angell (1872–1967) British politician

Peace and the Public Mind (1935)

Orson Scott Card photo

“And I says back to him, “Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,” and he says back to me, “I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, “Why?” and he says to me, “Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.””

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 1.

Walter Bagehot photo

“Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.”

Walter Bagehot book The English Constitution

No. I, "The Cabinet", p. 19
The English Constitution (1867)

“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.”

John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998) American historian and writer

Related topics