Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
Nat King Cole -
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.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan -
After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
Jackie Robinson -
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams -
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus
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I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
Daniel Akaka -
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.
Hakeem Jeffries -
You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.
E. Joseph Cossman -
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.
Immanuel Kant -
I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
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For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
Joe Jamail -
I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.
Brandon Stanton -
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
Diplo -
When you receive an education, you pass it on.
Clemantine Wamariya -
Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.
Charlie Korsmo -
I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.
Patty Murray
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Freedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich Schiller -
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
Jonathan Kozol -
...message to the world that all people should have access to basic education, to modern technology and the tools to combat infectious diseases.
Lael Brainard -
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
Francis Thompson -
When I was five I had violin lessons.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas