Education Quotes
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As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.
Wendy Kopp
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My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
Mark Mothersbaugh
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
B. R. Hayden
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
Edgar Quinet
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Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave the home; that young Afghan women today are not only accessing an education but are able to meet young people from around the world and cheer on a robot of their own making is something beautiful.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
Laura Ricketts
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I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
Mario Cuomo
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An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
Gavin Newsom
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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
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
Bailee Madison
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
Patricia Schroeder
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We need to increase education budgets.
Malala Yousafzai
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Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.
Pankaj Mishra
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.
Ursula Goodenough
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.
Orson F. Whitney
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Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.
Anthea Butler
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
Randi Weingarten
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Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
Brad Pitt
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
Kathleen Turner
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We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.
O. T. Fagbenle
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
Rand Paul
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
Wendy Davis