Education Quotes
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Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
Benjamin Carson -
The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
Joshua Jackson
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Get an education because no one can take that away from you.
Nomar Garciaparra -
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.
Dana Gioia -
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
John Murray -
We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.
Steve Spangler -
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
Ann Bridge -
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
Joseph Lancaster -
Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.
Murray Gell-Mann -
I believe Betsy DeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of Education.
Eva Moskowitz -
I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.
Brenda Brathwaite -
There's no chance of that happening to me. I've received a good education from my family.
Felix Hernandez -
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.
Helen Keller
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You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
Isaac Rosenberg -
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 -
An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas -
Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
Ninian Smart -
At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.
Anzia Yezierska -
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
Sarah Zettel
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...scientific education has run so far ahead of artistic culture and general knowledge that adults with the mentality of children are playing with phenomenally powerful toys...
Elliot Paul -
Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.
Evan Wolfson -
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
Helen Keller