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Education Quotes
"Who rebels with mathematics?"
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"What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!"
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"Education is what they equip you with, just in case your dream doesn't workout."
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"Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics."
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"It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby."
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"Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have."
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"We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach."
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"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."
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"But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions."
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"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."
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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
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"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do."
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"The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use."
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"Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations."
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"Education enables people and societies to be what they can be."
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"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."
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"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
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"In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits."
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"It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in."
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"I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education."
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"We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance."
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"For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life."
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"We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families."
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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
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"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."
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"'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms."
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"I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938."
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"Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work."
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"For a long time, priority has been given to spread education. This was necessary. But today more than expanding education what is necessary is to improve the quality of education. We will have to shift our priority from literacy campaign to good education. From now onward, more than schooling, we will have to lay stress on learning."
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"No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart."
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"We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures."
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"If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to."
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"Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education."
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"By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children."
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"When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."
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