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Education Quotes

"The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society."

"The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society."

Gaston Caperton, American Politician

Education, Society, Country, Schools

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"So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall."

"So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall."

Charles Schumer, American Politician

Education, Kids, Public, Schools

13

"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System."

"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System."

James Cronin, American Physicist

Education, Public, School

13

"Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete."

"Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete."

Joyce Meyer, American Author

Education, Businessman, Joyce A. Myers

13

"Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems."

"Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems."

Judy Biggert, American Politician

Education, Time, Behavior, Care

13

"I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct."

"I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Education, Class, Ethics, Morals, Right

13

"During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations."

"During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations."

Lucille Roybal Allard, American Politician

Education, Committee, Consideration, Democrats

13

"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."

"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."

Russell Banks, American Author

Education, Writer, Writing

13

"There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want."

"There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want."

Hillary Clinton, American Politician

Education, People, Opportunity, Freedom

13

"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."

"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."

Rutherford B. Hayes, American President

Education, Authority, End, Liberal

13

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."

John Gay, English Poet

Education, Forget

13

"Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations."

"Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations."

Ron Lewis, American Politician

Education, Quality, Future, Generations

13

"Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value."

"Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value."

Anita Roddick, English Businessman

Education, Health, Values, Years

13

"And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again."

"And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again."

Wavy Gravy, American Activist

Education, Thought, Nixon

13

"You see, one of the best ways to assure quality radiologic procedures is to require a basic level of education and skill for the people responsible for performing these procedures."

"You see, one of the best ways to assure quality radiologic procedures is to require a basic level of education and skill for the people responsible for performing these procedures."

Charles W. Pickering, American Judge

Education, Quality, People, Skill

13

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

Horace Mann, American Educator

Education, Schools

13

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

Harry S. Truman, American President

Education, Thought, Books, Race

13

"In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy."

"In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy."

Mike Rogers, American Politician

Education, Military, Nation, Post

13

"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."

"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."

Evan Parker, British Musician

Education, People, English, Force

13

"I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example."

"I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example."

Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician

Education, Money, Budgets, Economy

13

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Horace Mann, American Educator

Education, Men, Balance

13

"Very likely education does not make very much difference."

"Very likely education does not make very much difference."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Education, Difference

13

"Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature."

"Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature."

Rosamund Pike, British Actress

Education, Nature, Work, Actor

13

"Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people."

"Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people."

James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist

Education, Change, People, Knowledge

13

"I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund."

"I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund."

Chen Ning Yang, American Physicist

Education, First, University, Years

13

"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education."

"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education."

John Bruton, Irish Politician

Education, Work, Health, People

13

"I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!"

"I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!"

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Education, English, Importance, Literature

13

"One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try."

"One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Education, Learning, Experience, Action, Knowledge

13

"Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments."

"Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments."

Bobby Scott, American Politician

Education, State, Today

13

"I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools."

"I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools."

Charles Tupper, Canadian Statesman

Education, Reason, Schools, Teachers

13

"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."

"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."

George W. Bush, American President

Education, Liberal

13

"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."

"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."

James Tobin, American Economist

Education, Stress, Teaching

13

"After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education."

"After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education."

Michael N. Castle, American Politician

Education, School, State

13

"With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message."

"With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message."

Adam Rickitt, British Actor

Education, Government, Media, Vote

13

"The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California."

"The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California."

Gavin Newsom, American Politician

Education, Value

13

"I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer."

"I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer."

Marc Garneau, Canadian Astronaut

Education, Engineering, Navy, Years

13

"Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country."

"Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country."

Ric Keller, American Politician

Education, African, Americans, Country

13

"Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education."

"Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education."

Eliza Dushku, American Actress

Education, End, School

13

"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons."

"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Education, Reform, Schools

13

"I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place."

"I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place."

Sophia Bush, American Actress

Education, Books, Learning, School

13

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

Oliver Holmes, Jr., American Judge

Education, Years, Oliver Holmes, Jr.

13

"We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy."

"We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy."

Daniel Greenberg, American Educator

Education, Example, Philosophy, School, Students

13

"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."

"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."

Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

Education, Trust, People, Hope

13

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."

Nancy Astor, British Politician

Education, Humanity, Self

13

"If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status."

"If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status."

Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician

13

"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."

"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."

Kent McCord, American Actor

Education, Needs

13

"Marriage can wait, education cannot."

"Marriage can wait, education cannot."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

Education, Priority, Life, Truth

13

"Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it."

"Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Education, Path, Opportunity, Confidence

13

"You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community."

"You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community."

Alan Autry, American Actor

Education, Community

13

"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."

"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

Education, Society, Children

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