Education Quotes
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
John le Carre
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
Flannery O'Connor
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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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In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.
K. P. Yohannan
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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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God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
Corrie Ten Boom
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The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
William Fogg Osgood
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As India becomes more tax-compliant, government revenues will improve, and we will be able to serve the poor better. We can have better roads, healthcare, education, and improve the life of farmers.
Piyush Goyal
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I never say no to any event that is associated with education.
Mohammad Azharuddin
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Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
William Shakespeare
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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
Plato
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One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.
Mildred Dresselhaus
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I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
John Joseph Lydon
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Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
Bill Clinton
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People are not born with racial prejudices. For example, children have none. Racial questions are questions of education. Africans learned racism form the European. Is it any wonder that they now think in terms of race - after all they've gone through under colonialism?
Ahmed Sekou Toure
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It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
Immanuel Kant
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We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.
Basil Moreau
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The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.
Walter Ciszek
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Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
Christine Gregoire
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If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.
Chrystia Freeland
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A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.
Raymond Williams
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My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.
David C. Driskell
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You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
Cory Booker