Education Quotes
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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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In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The relationship just hasn't been examined very carefully, but we should all recognize that in higher education the strongest institutions generally have the most robust tenure systems, and in elementary and secondary, the states with the strongest teacher unions (and tenure systems) tend to have the highest student performance.
Nicholas Lemann
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By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
Bill Gates
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I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.
Ezra Miller
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
Erica Jong
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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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Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.
Ann Lewin-Benham
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It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.
Charles Dickens
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Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.
Rick Perry
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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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Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis.
Natalie Portman
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In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.
Letitia Wright
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What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
Tony Abbott
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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.
Nicholas Negroponte
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I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.
Peter Diamandis
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The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Vita Sackville-West
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Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.
Trisha Yearwood
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Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.
Steven Michael Quezadaun
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They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
Michael N. Castle
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The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect.
Bill Gates
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To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
Jennifer Granholm
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Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.
Andrew Linzey
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I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
Ernest L. Boyer
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The duties he won't have are budget, budget development, supervision and discipline of employees. Clearly, Carrol Henderson has played a key role in education and promotion. That's where we need him most.
Brad Moore