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I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
– Jonathan Kozol
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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
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I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
– Alan Autry
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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 Macy
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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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I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.
– Jimmy Smits
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I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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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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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
– Bo Jackson
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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
– Barbara Walters
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I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.
– Loretta Lynn
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I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
– Joichi Ito
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
– H. G. Wells
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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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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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Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
– Carol Bellamy
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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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Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
– Marc Andreessen
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Health and education are always issues.
– Helen Clark
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Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
– Joe Baca
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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.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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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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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
– William Godwin
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
– Clarence Thomas
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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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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
– Jane Austen
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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 keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.
– Nancy Pelosi
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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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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
– Danny Glover
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Freedom can occur only through education.
– Friedrich Schiller
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Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
– Jonathan Sacks
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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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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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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
– Lafcadio Hearn
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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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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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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
– Plato
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For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
– Liam Neeson
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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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Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
– Ron Lewis
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Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
– Mark Kennedy
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Few things are as essential as education.
– Walter Annenberg
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
– Major Owens
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
– Jacques Barzun
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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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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
– Nicholas Negroponte
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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
– William Glasser
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Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
– Sidney Blumenthal
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Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
– Arne Duncan
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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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Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
– Ron Lewis
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Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.
– Roy Barnes
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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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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
– Mary Augusta Ward
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
– John Dewey
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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
– Havelock Ellis
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Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
– John Agyekum Kufuor
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
– Ambrose Bierce
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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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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
– Milton Sapirstein
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Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
– Major Owens
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
– Major Owens
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Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
– Barbara Jordan
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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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Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
– Joyce Meyer
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Education liberates a woman.
– Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.
– Pete Seeger
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Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
– Sir George Savile
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
– B. F. Skinner
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
– Karl Kraus
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Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education is the vaccine for violence.
– Edward James Olmos
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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
– William Glasser
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
– Malcolm X
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
– John Ruskin
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Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.
– Edward James Olmos
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
– Chanakya
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
– Edmund Burke
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Education is the best economic policy there is.
– Tony Blair
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
– W. E. B. Du Bois
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Education is not so important as people think.
– Elizabeth Bowen
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
– William Butler Yeats
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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
– Thomas Moore
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
– Ed Markey
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Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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Education is for growth and fulfillment.
– Tom Robbins
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
– Ralph Ellison
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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 is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
– Rita Mae Brown
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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
– Joseph Stalin
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
– Lillian Smith
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
– Laurence J. Peter
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