Education Quotes
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The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.
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Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.
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There's no chance of that happening to me. I've received a good education from my family.
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Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.
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Good education has got to be good entertainment.
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Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.
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If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
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I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
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People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
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A teacher should be sparing of his smile.
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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.
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Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.
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The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
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Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
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That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.
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There are many issues within the deaf community but, for me, none more important than access to education for deaf children.
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I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.
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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.