Education Quotes
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It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
Amanda Lindhout
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A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
John Grogan
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
Barack Obama, Sr.
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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
Christine Lagarde
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I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.
Joan Kirner
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We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
Carol Moseley Braun
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I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
Chick Corea
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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 grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
Weili Dai
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When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin
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Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education.
Edith Stein
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We owe a lot when it comes to women in terms of innovation, in terms of education, in terms of progression in life.
Aldis Hodge
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Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.
David Souter
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With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Clarence Darrow
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Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.
Kano Jigoro
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Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
Malala Yousafzai
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I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray. It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
C. V. Raman
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
Oprah Winfrey
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin
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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Earl Warren
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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Barbara Jordan
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All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Emma Goldman
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As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
John Vanbrugh