education

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘education’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with…

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  • “A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.” -Agnes de Mille

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  • “In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you’re a theater actor it’s very difficult to make a living. But it’s also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.” -Gael Garcia Bernal

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  • “I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.” -George J. Mitchell

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  • “I don’t want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.” -Callan McAuliffe

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  • “It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes – they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.” -Frank Shorter

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  • “Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.” -Jean Giraudoux

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  • “At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.” -William John Wills

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  • “Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.” -Roland Joffe

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  • “In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.” -Bobby Jindal

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  • “There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.” -Anne Campbell

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  • “Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can’t use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.” -Bjorn Lomborg

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  • “And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother’s push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.” -Sam Donaldson

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  • “Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama’s future than an investment in education.” -Bob Riley

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  • “I wouldn’t be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.” -Matthew Morrison

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  • “I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.” -Kamala Harris

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  • “Each year, I say I’m going to go to school next year. It’s inevitable that I’ll end up getting my education.” -Eliza Dushku

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  • “Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.” -Timothy Murphy

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  • “As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.” -Gwen Moore

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  • “One of the factors a country’s economy depends on is human capital. If you don’t provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women’s empowerment bring huge economic benefits.” -Michelle Bachelet

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  • “I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we’d play piano.” -Lisa Loeb

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  • “‘Friends’ was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master’s degree in comedy.” -Matt LeBlanc

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  • “What’s got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.” -Reed Hastings

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  • “Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there’s an education level that plays into the mix and so if it’s inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.” -Ray Dalio

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  • “I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.” -Mayer Hawthorne

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  • “When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.” -Philip Emeagwali

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  • “Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay – everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don’t want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.” -Charles Kennedy

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  • “But I like going to church. If you’ve been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it’s important that part of the kids’ education is knowing about the Bible.” -Jack Dee

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  • “Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.” -Edward Thorndike

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  • “What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God’s name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?” -Kathleen Turner

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  • “Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.” -William Godwin

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  • “Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.” -Norman Douglas

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  • “My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women’s education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.” -Antonia Fraser

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  • “The value of a good education has never left me.” -Michelle Pfeiffer

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  • “You can’t have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don’t have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.” -Walter Isaacson

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  • “My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.” -Julie Bowen

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  • “I’m not sure it’s the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn’t as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.” -Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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  • “A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.” -Gwendolyn Brooks

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  • “But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.” -Polly Toynbee

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  • “My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.” -Mike Pence

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  • “Look, I want what’s good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can’t they all just do what I say when I know I’m right?” -Arabella Weir

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  • “Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn’t work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.” -Roger Bannister

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  • “My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.” -Matt Damon

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  • “And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?” -Frederic Bastiat

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  • “The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?” -Susan George

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  • “Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.” -Alan K. Simpson

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  • “Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.” -Ed Markey

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  • “By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans’ services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.” -Dan Lipinski

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  • “I have an education, I went to college, you know?” -Nicole Polizzi

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  • “These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.” -Kevin Rudd

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  • “Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.” -Gregory Bateson

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  • “My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.” -Jet Li

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  • “If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.” -Patrick J. Kennedy

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  • “We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn’t reimburse us on any of these things.” -Jan Brewer

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  • “There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don’t.” -Steven Soderbergh

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  • “In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.” -Marlo Thomas

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  • “Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours – all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life – it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.” -James Van Der Beek

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  • “I’ve got no education.” -Andrea Arnold

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  • “Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.” -Phyllis Schlafly

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  • “Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.” -Michael Moore

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  • “In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.” -Piers Anthony

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  • “If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.” -Sargent Shriver

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  • “I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.” -Philip Pullman

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  • “Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate… We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman’s right to choose.” -Barbara Boxer

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  • “Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.” -George Will

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  • “Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.” -Edsger Dijkstra

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  • “Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.” -Kathleen Blanco

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  • “The five different areas in which boys are in crisis – education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness – are handled by different portions of the government.” -Warren Farrell

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  • “A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you’ll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.” -Michael Morpurgo

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  • “Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.” -John Baldacci

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  • “Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.” -Zhuang Zi

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  • “The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.” -Minoru Yamasaki

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  • “Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.” -Mahesh Bhupathi

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  • “Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.” -Janet Napolitano

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  • “In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.” -Walter Annenberg

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  • “To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.” -John Dickey

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  • “Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.” -Ernie Fletcher

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  • “I’m sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it’s outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.” -Marian Wright Edelman

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  • “Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.” -Kent Conrad

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  • “My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.” -Renee Fleming

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  • “Let’s remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.” -Armstrong Williams

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  • “The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.” -Rick Ross

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  • “In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.” -David Miliband

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  • “I’m very jealous of my daughter’s education. She’s been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.” -Jenny Eclair

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  • “My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.” -Graham Norton

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  • “Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills – the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life – the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.” -Todd English

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  • “In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we’ll have poor education – that’s a false choice.” -Scott Walker

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  • “When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.” -Ai Weiwei

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  • “Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.” -Mary Astell

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  • “The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.” -John Jay Hooker

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  • “The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.” -Gaston Caperton

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  • “One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.” -Chris Van Hollen

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  • “I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don’t think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.” -Wallace Shawn

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  • “But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.” -Jeffrey Archer

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

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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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “Of all the public services, education is the one I’m most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it’s morally right.” -George Osborne

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  • “Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.” -Luis Fortuno

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  • “Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.” -Jerome Bruner

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  • “So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.” -Charles Schumer

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

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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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.” -Pete Seeger

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  • “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.” -Brad Henry

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  • “To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.” -Jennifer Granholm

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  • “I don’t know if I’m a national education figure.” -Jeb Bush

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  • “Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!” -Roger Moore

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  • “I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable – me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, ‘Oh finally, I’m proud of you!’” -David Guetta

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  • “Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.” -Gouverneur Morris

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  • “In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.” -Tom Vilsack

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  • “Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.” -Sue Johanson

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  • “The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.” -Jack Kemp

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  • “Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I’m also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I’m majoring in childhood education.” -Diana Lopez

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  • “So I was shampooing at 14. But I’ve always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There’s no question about it.” -Vidal Sassoon

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  • “A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.” -Ann Plato

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  • “It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.” -Brooks Atkinson

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  • “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.” -Carol Burnett

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  • “It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that’s not the world we live in.” -Glenda Jackson

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  • “Education is the mother of leadership.” -Wendell Willkie

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  • “A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.” -Allen West

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  • “My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.” -Jennifer Garner

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  • “Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.” -Christine Gregoire

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  • “America’s growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with America’s growth rate is a brutal work schedule.” -Fareed Zakaria

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  • “Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.” -Isabel Allende

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  • “I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.” -Dean Kamen

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  • “If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.” -Bo Jackson

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  • “Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.” -Stephen Vizinczey

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  • “It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.” -Charles Babbage

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  • “The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn’t always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn’t yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.” -Katherine Dunham

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  • “But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.” -Stuart Pearce

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  • “Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.” -Alexis Herman

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  • “I’m no politician. I’m an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.” -Stephen Ambrose

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  • “My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.” -Clarence Thomas

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  • “Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.” -Steve Irwin

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  • “Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don’t come into the world.” -Karl Kraus

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  • “Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.” -Ric Keller

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  • “The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.” -Orson Scott Card

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  • “My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.” -Sloane Crosley

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  • “More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.” -John le Carre

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  • “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” -Sidney Hook

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  • “I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you’re going to do when you’ve got your degree.” -James Dyson

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  • “An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.” -Francois Hollande

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  • “As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.” -Naguib Mahfouz

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  • “One of the things that’s great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.” -Sarah Jessica Parker

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  • “A mother’s ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.” -Cat Cora

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  • “Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.” -Mary Harris Jones

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  • “Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.” -Joyce Meyer

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  • “The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.” -Lucy Powell

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  • “I am playing the violin, that’s all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.” -Itzhak Perlman

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  • “The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.” -Daisaku Ikeda

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  • “I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.” -Jim DeMint

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  • “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” -Earl Warren

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  • “I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.” -Andrew Cuomo

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  • “It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.” -Adam Weishaupt

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  • “The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.” -Tryon Edwards

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  • “Education is for growth and fulfillment.” -Tom Robbins

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  • “I don’t think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.” -Wilma Mankiller

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  • “Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President’s economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation – innovation begins in the classroom – clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to…

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  • “For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.” -King Abdullah II

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