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  • Christopher Bond on education

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    “Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.” -Christopher Bond

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  • Ian Mcewan on education

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    “My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren’t able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.” -Ian Mcewan

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  • Bernie Sanders on education

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    “You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.” -Bernie Sanders

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  • Tippi Hedren on education

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    “I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career… I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.” -Tippi Hedren

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  • Carl Lewis on education

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    “I don’t feel I’m qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.” -Carl Lewis

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  • Julie Walters on education

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    “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.” -Julie Walters

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  • Hugh Mackay on education

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    “The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what’s actually happening to our culture?” -Hugh Mackay

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  • Sherri Shepherd on education

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    “Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.” -Sherri

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  • Allan Bloom on education

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    “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.” -Allan Bloom

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  • Wynton Marsalis on education

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    “Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.” -Wynton Marsalis

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  • Donna Shalala on education

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    “Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.” -Donna Shalala

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  • Angela Merkel on education

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    “I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.” -Angela Merkel

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  • Michelle Williams on education

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    “Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn’t pass my friend’s sixth-grade class.” -Michelle Williams

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  • Barney Frank on education

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    “It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.” -Barney Frank

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  • Aldo Leopold on education

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    “Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.” -Aldo Leopold

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  • Joe Baca on education

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    “Catholic schools in our Nation’s education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.” -Joe Baca

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  • Cory Booker on education

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    “You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.” -Cory Booker

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  • Melinda Gates on education

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    “My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.” -Melinda Gates

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  • Andrea Jung on education

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    “When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She’ll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman’s role in the economy benefits society at large.” -Andrea Jung

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  • Barry Commoner on education

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    “Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.” -Barry Commoner

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  • Stockwell Day on education

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    “If the Liberals’ law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.” -Stockwell Day

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  • Taylor Caldwell on education

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    “I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.” -Taylor Caldwell

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  • Vince Cable on education

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    “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.” -Vince Cable

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  • Rainn Wilson on education

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    “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.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • Little Richard on education

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    “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.” -Little Richard

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