Education Quotes
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus
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Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed or guided, it may also heighten or intensify unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
African Spir
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The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
Robert Baden-Powell
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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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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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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
Nancy Pearcey
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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The 'People's Budget' rewards hard work and invests in our country. It ensures that everyone has an opportunity to get a good education, find a good job, live in a safe and secure home, put food on the table, have affordable health care, save for retirement, and maybe have a little left over.
Jan Schakowsky
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon
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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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Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
Albio Sires
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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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Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.
Donella Meadows
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.
Gabrielle Giffords
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
Ted Strickland
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I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.
Aberjhani
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
Barry Larkin
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
Randi Weingarten
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
Flea Jane's Addiction
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Sally Kirkland
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
Quentin Blake