Education Quotes
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Literacy in itself is no education.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder
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The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.
Helen Keller
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A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
Helen Keller
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Education is the social bedrock for the hopes and dreams of our children and the foundation that is necessary for their future prosperity.
John Hickenlooper
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I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.
Eddie George
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
George Bernard Shaw
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
Simone Veil
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'Sesame Street' was built on the idea that a show that could capture a child's attention could also give the child an education. That idea turned out to be wildly successful.
Elizabeth Flock
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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
T. S. Eliot
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Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
Richard Widmark
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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
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Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.
George Trumbull Ladd
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Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.
Julia Gillard
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Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
Erich Maria Remarque
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People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.
Donald Miller
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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
Jonathan Sacks
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I think anyone that's running for office really should focus on the education for our youth, creating more jobs and employment, and really focusing on our next generation.
Allan Pineda Lindo The Black Eyed Peas
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Teachers know how to improve education, but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.
Charles Best
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A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
Azim Premji
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Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
Plato
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For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
Ken Robinson
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Experience does for the soul, what education does for the mind.
Casey Neistat