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Education Quotes
"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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"Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country."
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"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992."
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"Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation."
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"Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need."
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"Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools."
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"I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind."
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"When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."
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"Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services."
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"I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it."
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"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."
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"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."
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"Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic."
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
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"The best teachers are the ones who give you a hard time, they may not intend it, but you can intend to learn!!!"
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"When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment."
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"I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world."
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"It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans."
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"It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being."
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"By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools."
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"The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education."
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"That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return."
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"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."
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"The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system."
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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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"All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts."
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"Education enables people and societies to be what they can be."
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"I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs."
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"I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge."
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"There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful."
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"Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas."
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"As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education."
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"The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society."
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"So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall."
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