Education Quotes
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.
 Benjamin Rush
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I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.
 Ann Bancroft
					 
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I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
 Jerry Della Femina
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The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
 John Conyers
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There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
 William Damon
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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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What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
 Arthur Schopenhauer
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The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.
 William Lyon Phelps
					 
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
 Will Durant
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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
 William Gibson
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After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need for the competition of ideas or critical thinking. So the curriculum will be up to the school to determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will welcome this opportunity to spend a large portion of our income on education and choose an ideology at the same time.
 David A. Strauss
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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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Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
 Norm MacDonald
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
 William James
					 
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We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.
 Benjamin Rush
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
 Polly Toynbee
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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
 Sidney Hook
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The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.
 Bernard Iddings Bell
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
 William Morris
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Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.
 Mirai Nagasu
					 
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Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
 Martha Gellhorn
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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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Teachers know how to improve education.
 Charles Best
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Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It is our common goal, common interest promote more compassion toward the world.
 Dalai Lama