George Peabody Quotes
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
Ferid Murad -
That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
Mara Wilson -
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.
Jack Dangermond -
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
Adam Braun -
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.
Madhuri Dixit
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If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.
Carl Paladino -
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus -
I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.
Lady Gaga -
It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a job four years later. If you're just doing this because it is going to lead to a 'good job,' you're better off doing something you're genuinely interested in.
Dan Pink -
I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
Kamala Harris -
I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
Palmer Luckey
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
Weili Dai -
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
Jean Piaget -
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 don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.
Pope Benedict XVI -
Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.
Trisha Yearwood
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I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
Chick Corea -
I really love storytelling.
Larry Wilmore -
Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.
Jamie Moyer -
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
I feel like, generally, the golden eras of cinema seem to be in moments of incredible political turmoil and strife and struggle.
Karyn Kusama -
Education : a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody