Education Quotes
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.
Joseph Mawle
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In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.
Barack Obama
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Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.
Alistair Beaton
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Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.
Kelly Reilly
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Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.
Caroline Ghosn
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France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.
Francois Hollande
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
Jeb Bush
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I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.
Brad Schneider
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I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.
Karim Sadjadpour
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Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.
Jose Ferreira
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
Plato
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While geometrical concepts can be enriched by culture-specific devices like maps, or the terms of a natural language, underneath this variability lies a shared set of geometrical concepts. Those concepts allow adults and children with no formal education, and minimal spatial language, to categorize geometrical forms and to use geometrical relationship to represent the surrounding spatial layout.
Elizabeth Spelke
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Africa is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy, good nutrition, good education. That'll be important for the world.
Bill Gates
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
Twyla Tharp
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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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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
Jimmy Iovine
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My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.
George Emil Palade
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The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
Ken Robinson
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I think education and intelligence are important, but not art. Not artistic education.
Brassaï
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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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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.
Jimmy Buffett
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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