Education Quotes
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All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
Jonathan Kozol
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No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.
Jimmy Carter
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As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
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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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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
Eugene Jarecki
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Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
Bill Gates
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S Truman
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Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.
Bruce Bawer
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Moral education is the development of individuality, and individuality can not be developed by formulas and mechanical processes: it is the work of the master who brings to his task a genuine and loving interest in the individual.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
George Bernard Shaw
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The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
Susanna Moodie
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My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.
Steven Michael Quezadaun
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.
Ernie Fletcher
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My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.
George Michael
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The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.
Alissa Quart
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There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.
Elisabeth Marbury
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Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.
Elliott Masie
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Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.
Clint Smith
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I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.
Georgia May Jagger
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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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You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
Dennis Miller
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Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
Twyla Tharp
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Good education has got to be good entertainment.
Nicholas Negroponte