Education Quotes
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I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
Arthur Hailey -
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
Malcolm Wallop -
Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
Alan Arkin -
We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
Larry Hogan -
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy -
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
Joe Baca -
During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.
Hakeem Jeffries
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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw -
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian -
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Barbra Streisand -
To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.
Melanie Griffith -
However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.
Kandyse McClure -
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
Katherine Dunham
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We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
Bayard Rustin -
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
Tom Stoppard -
Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.
Mark Shriver -
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
Wendy Kopp -
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Richard Feynman
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
Jimmy Wales -
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
Dalai Lama -
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott -
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