Education Quotes
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I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.
Muhammad Ali
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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 saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.
Charles Best
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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
Nat Hentoff
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
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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
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
Elaine Scarry
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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
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Rod had signed on the dotted line mostly because he’d been promised a free college education. But his commitment to the armed forces had quickly evolved into much more than that. In the navy, he’d found a home, friends who were more like brothers, purpose in what he did, some self-esteem. But it hadn’t been an easy road.
Brenda Novak
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As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.
Alma Adams
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Good education has got to be good entertainment.
Nicholas Negroponte
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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
