Will Durant Quotes
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
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Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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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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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
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Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.
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My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.
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The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.
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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation.
