Education Quotes
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No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.
William A. Henry III
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Education is the most critical tool for transforming individuals and spurring growth and development.
Atiku Abubakar
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The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
William James
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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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I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
Eleanor Catton
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Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.
Cardale Jones
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Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.
Scarlett Johansson
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I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
Plato
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One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
John Joseph Lydon
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As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.
Jimmy Smits
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I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.
Johann Lamont
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I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
Peter Drucker
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Education is like the pooja ghar for us. We are never going to become a for-profit player in education. It will be akin to selling the pooja ghar.
Anand Mahindra
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The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
Martin Buber
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And her Eleanor Roosevelt Grandmother Hall provided her really with a quite wonderful education, and a freedom that, within the framework of Tivoli (which is a framework of discipline and order) is also a very encouraging and loving one.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
Chuck Berry
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There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
Amity Shlaes
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When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.
Karen Lewis
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Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.
Anne Wojcicki
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The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind....Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
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I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!
John C. Mather
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Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
George Eliot
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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