Education Quotes
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Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
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We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.
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[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].
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My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.
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If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever.
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Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
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Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.
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The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
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I don't know if I'm a national education figure.
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We don't have universal health care. Education is so expensive. We have these massive problems, you know? So it makes me really happy to think that somebody could have all the music in the world for free. But at the same time, if you have enough money to pay for it, you should pay for it.
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The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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I'm pretty sure my mom is the only person on the planet who thinks that she got cancer so that I could find my calling in life, but as I started to build this company, all my years of useless education, random jobs, and weird interests merged into this serendipitous moment.
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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.
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We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.
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The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.
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We are certainly seeing more of this blended learning cropping up in graduate education and executive education. I think what many firms are experiencing and colleges are learning is that it is being overused in some cases. You are sometimes seeing courses where the content doesn't lend itself well to online learning.
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My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
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My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
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I had always heard it maintained by my father, and was myself convinced, that the object of education should be to form the strongest possible associations of the salutary class; associations of pleasure with all things beneficial to the great whole, and of pain with all things hurtful to it.
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Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.
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No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
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Education is the vaccine for violence.
