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).
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“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my…
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“Our solution on ‘The Simpsons’ is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don’t, it doesn’t matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, ‘D’oh!’” -Matt Groening
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“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.” -Jane Fonda
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“When I was a child I didn’t care about getting an education, and I didn’t finish high school.” -Mary J. Blige
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“I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they’re doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.” -Evel Knievel
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“The American education system couldn’t be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.” -Dennis Miller
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“I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.” -Jonathan Kozol
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“As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it’s like we’re downgrading if you look at the investment in education… that’s the thing that worries me.” -will.i.am
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“To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.” -Bill Vaughan
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“I think you can’t really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it’s New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can’t escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.” -Jack White
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“I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.” -Sophia Bush
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“We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.” -Arthur Ashe
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“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?” -Beah Richards
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“The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.” -Lewis Thomas
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“I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part…
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“I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people’s eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.” -Haile Gebrselassie
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“My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.” -Adam Carolla
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“And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.” -Wavy Gravy
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“It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.” -Christy Turlington
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“I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.” -William Glasser
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“Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“I ain’t got much education, but I got some sense.” -Loretta Lynn
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“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.” -John Updike
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“Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.” -Angela Davis
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“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” -James A. Garfield
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“I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.” -Yoko Ono
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“When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master’s and I didn’t do it by missing school.” -Angela Bassett
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“I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.” -Al Gore
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“Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.” -Hosea Ballou
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“Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don’t begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.” -Robert. L. Ehrlich
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“I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don’t have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.” -Jerry Lewis
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“I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.” -Spike Lee
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“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.” -Munshi Premchand
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“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush’s austere budget for the next fiscal year.” -Arlen Specter
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“Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.” -John Sununu
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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” -Henry Adams
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“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.” -Charlotte Bronte
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“No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.” -William Law
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“You know, in 1975 I couldn’t get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.” -Emeril Lagasse
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“I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.” -Lech Walesa
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“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.” -John Glenn
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“The formal education that I received made little sense to me.” -Twyla Tharp
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“Education is not so important as people think.” -Elizabeth Bowen
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“I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.” -J. C. Watts
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“Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children’s education.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.” -Thomas Frank
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“Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.” -Peter Singer
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“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” -David Rockefeller
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“Education, like neurosis, begins at home.” -Milton Sapirstein
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“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.” -Dennis Prager
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“I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn’t do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you’re done, don’t make your hobby your job.” -Eric Bana
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“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.” -Daniel Goleman
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“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.” -Benjamin Carson
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“Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.” -Bob Beauprez
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“Education is the best economic policy there is.” -Tony Blair
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“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there’s a gender gap.” -Dee Dee Myers
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“Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.” -David Suzuki
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“What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.” -Danica McKellar
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“Education has for its object the formation of character.” -Herbert Spencer
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“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.” -Anne Sullivan
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“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.” -Charles Kettering
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“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.” -Anne Sullivan Macy
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“I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my…
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“Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.” -Marc Andreessen
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“The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they’re two different things.” -David Bailey
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“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.” -Loretta Young
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“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.” -Billy Sunday
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“By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.” -John Dryden
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“The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” -James Baldwin
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“Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn’t sign your name you’d have to pay cash.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.” -Billy Joel
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“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.” -Garrett Hardin
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“To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.” -Alan Greenspan
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“We’re first on executions. We’re 49th in funding public education. We’re in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we’re winning.” -Kinky Friedman
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“Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students’ math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.” -Thad Cochran
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“There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.” -Sachin Tendulkar
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“There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.” -Toni Morrison
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“Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.” -Judy Biggert
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“Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn’t speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.” -Lawrence Welk
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“But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.” -Kathy Ireland
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“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.” -Samuel Richardson
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“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe,’ but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.” -Maria Montessori
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“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.” -Norman Cousins
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“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?” -Cesar Chavez
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“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.” -Sam Houston
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“I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.” -Susan Orlean
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“President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that’s what President Obama believes.” -Elizabeth Warren
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“The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.” -Mortimer Adler
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“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.” -Kamisese Mara
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“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.” -Ron Jaworski
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“There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.” -Buzz Aldrin
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“The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.” -Daniel Webster
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“Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”…
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“The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.” -Morris Dees
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“Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” -Will Durant
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“In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.” -Camille Paglia
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“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.” -David Hume
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“We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.” -Dan Quayle
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“The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.” -Mia Love
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“Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.” -Dianne Feinstein
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“Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it’s directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended…
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“I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I’ve been fighting so hard to have an education. It’s been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros’ pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.” -Emma Watson
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“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.” -Dylan Thomas
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“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.” -Frederick William Robertson
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“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.” -Emma Goldman
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“You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.” -Malcolm X
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“In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.” -William J. Clinton
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“Very likely education does not make very much difference.” -Gertrude Stein
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“True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“Education is the art of making man ethical.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” -William Bennett
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“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“My father is a real idealist, and he’s all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding ‘No.’ But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I’d be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning,…
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“A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what’s best for all.” -Cornel West
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“In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” -Russell Means
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“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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“For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.” -Michael Caine
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“Since my education, I’ve done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians – certainly when I was there – went to Cambridge. I don’t know whether it’s the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.” -Tom…
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“I’ve never been a big believer in formal education.” -Megan Fox
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“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.” -Noam Chomsky
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“The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.” -Carter G. Woodson
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“The key to education is the experience of beauty.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” -Derek Bok
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“I don’t imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I’m not an economist therefore I can’t take decisions on matters of the economy I’m not a soldier I can’t take decisions on matters of defence I’m not an educationist so I can’t take decisions about education.” -Thabo Mbeki
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“Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.” -Paul Erdos
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“For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.” -Havelock Ellis
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“A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.” -John Lubbock
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“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.” -Sonia Sotomayor
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“We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.” -Suze Orman
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“Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.” -Zhuangzi
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“Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.” -Jenny McCarthy
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“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” -Norman…
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“Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.” -Jon Meacham
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“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” -Publilius Syrus
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“If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.” -William Jennings Bryan
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“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.” -Horace Mann
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“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.” -John Maynard Keynes
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“I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn’t wait to be out of education.” -Tom Stoppard
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“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” -Walter Scott
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“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation – not cynicism and combat.” -Rick Perry
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“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.” -E. B. White
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“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.” -Alexandre Dumas
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“Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.” -Paul Ryan
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“For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn’t do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn’t fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.” -Bruce Springsteen
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“I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I’ve come to the conclusion that we all get an education.” -Michael J. Fox
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“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there’s no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.” -Tallulah Bankhead
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“I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.” -Michelle Obama
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“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.” -H. G. Wells
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“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.” -Desmond Tutu
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“I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.” -Wilson Mizner
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“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.” -Brigham Young
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“Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.” -Paul Wellstone
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“Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.” -George W. Bush
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“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” -William Morris
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“‘Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.” -William Congreve
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“Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don’t want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.” -James Hillman
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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as ‘The Pacific’.” -Steven Spielberg
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“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.” -Anatole France
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“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.” -John W. Gardner
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