Education Quotes
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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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.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
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There's something to be taken from every job, whether it's crap or good. Sometimes, on the awful ones, I get more of an education about other areas of my business.
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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.
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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.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.
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In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.
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Title I dollars are well spent. They are really making a difference in the education of students.
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There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.
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Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers - and, particularly, access to education.
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There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and only half that sum for education: There are no naturally pretty girls in the United States.
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The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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Good education has got to be good entertainment.
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As I explained when I announced that I was turning down a potential opportunity to serve as Secretary of Education, I voted for Hillary Clinton and was sorely disappointed she didn't win.
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The mere imparting of information is not education.
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There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.
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Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.
