Jimmy Wales Quotes
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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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.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
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I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
