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Education Quotes
"I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I."
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"In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country."
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"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."
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"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."
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"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
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"There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring."
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"I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology."
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"Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination."
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"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
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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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"Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds."
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"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education."
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"One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so."
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"We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond."
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"I'm committed to universal health coverage and education."
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"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
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"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
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"Education is the transmission of civilization."
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"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."
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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 Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education."
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"I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere."
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"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools."
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"It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that."
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"The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should."
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"Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?"
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"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."
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"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
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"But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."
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"I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman."
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"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."
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"The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician."
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"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers."
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"Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on."
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"Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better."
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"It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck."
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