Education Quotes
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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
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Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
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The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.
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Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity". "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
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Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.
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There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.
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I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.
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Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.
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The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.
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Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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?
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I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.
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In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
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Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
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I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.
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As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.
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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
