Education Quotes
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I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.
Patty Murray -
Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!
Kim Richards
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I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.
Petula Clark -
Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
Wendy Kopp -
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra -
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
Derek Bok -
Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
Wendy Kopp -
As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.
Mary Landrieu
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We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.
Barack Obama -
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Malcolm X -
I can't predict the future of football. I don't think it'll go the way of boxing because it's a team sport. It's built into our education systems, the flagship for a lot of universities' fundraising campaigns. So no, I don't think it'll go away.
Chris Borland -
At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!
Mary Beard -
My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.
Joe R. Lansdale -
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
Randi Weingarten
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Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer dollars unfairly.
Lisa Madigan -
I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
Zach Gilford -
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey -
During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
Jack Dangermond -
I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
Yana Kudryavtseva -
There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
C.P. Snow
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Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated.
Betsy DeVos -
The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.
Betsy DeVos -
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore -
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
Mark Kennedy