Education Quotes
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
Nancy Gibbs
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
Orison Swett Marden
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold Rosenberg
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Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
Ellen G. White
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Education is a vaccine for violence.
Edward James Olmos
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
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The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan
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I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.
Anna Pump
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Barack Obama
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
B. F. Skinner
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The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.
Marsha Blackburn
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In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
Walter Annenberg
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
E. Franklin Frazier
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.
Gaby Hoffmann
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My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
Garry Hynes
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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
Donald Bren
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Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.
Rick Perry
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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
Piers Anthony
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Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.
Alek Wek
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Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
Will Smith
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Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn … The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.
James Brown