Education Quotes
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Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
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One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.
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Having an education is invaluable.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
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I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
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It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.
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Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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Regarding sex education: no secrets!
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My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
