Explore popular quotes and sayings by Lowell Milken.
Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Lowell Jay Milken is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation. He is also the founder of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement as well as co-founder of Knowledge Universe, a provider of early childhood education. Milken is a former senior vice-president in the junk bond-trading operation of Drexel Burnham Lambert, headed by his brother Michael Milken.
Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.
In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.
The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.
Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.
The future belongs to the educated.
The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.
The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to be well nourished and for exactly the same reason. A child's growth depends on it.
That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.