Education Quotes
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
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I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
Jenna Bush
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American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
Lincoln Chafee
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You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
Medgar Evers
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That emphasis, from my parents, was always, "if you want something different from this" - they didn't say "better than this," because I'm not sure that they knew anything better, "then get an education."
David C. Driskell
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Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
Blaise Pascal
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I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.
Gina Raimondo
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Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
Baden Powell
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It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.
Napoleon Hill
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People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.
Charles Dance
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Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.
Ken Robinson
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What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?
Janet Reno
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Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
John Milton
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The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
John Cotton Dana
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Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.
Sai Baba
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel -
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
Lucretia Mott
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It is such a tricky transition between education and work.
James William Middleton
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I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer.
Queen Latifah
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It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.
Ban Ki-moon
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One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
Chris Van Hollen
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
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The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.
Angus Deaton