Education Quotes
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas
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What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
Ulrich Beck
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The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa represents our commitment to Africa's next generation of leaders, who deserve an exemplary education to prepare them to help set the course for their nations' futures. We expect the universities in which we invest to become the foundation of a higher education network that will serve all of Africa for decades to come.
Vartan Gregorian
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The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
H. L. Mencken
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I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
Charles William Eliot
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Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
James E. Rogers
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
Jimmy Wales
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.
Edward Everett
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I was in public school until third or fourth grade, and after that, I was homeschooled. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education.
Aldis Hodge
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You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.
Dave Heineman
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I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has nothing to offer them. Suppose they do get a high school diploma that is meaningful. What kind of job is awaiting them. The jobs that used to be available to working class people are not there as a result of the de-industrialization of this economy.
Angela Davis
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
Gaston Caperton
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We need a comprehensive focus on infrastructure that supports not just transportation but also broadband, education, healthcare, and our environment.
John Hickenlooper
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Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.
Christian de Duve
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All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
John Walters
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The world will not Change and find peace if there is not a new education.
U Thant
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What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.
Lynn Barber
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
Nelsan Ellis
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The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.
Ann Cotton
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As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
John Vanbrugh
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
D. H. Lawrence
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I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
Ellen Ochoa
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The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.
Pamela Druckerman