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Education Quotes
"Education is meaningless without manners."
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"The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician."
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"To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam."
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"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education."
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"If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?"
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"A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare say, if I were to try, I couldn't at a moment's notice tell you the names of more than two score of books at the outside. Folk must make acquaintance among books as they would among living folk."
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"Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions."
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"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."
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"To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education."
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"Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects."
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"The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness."
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"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."
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"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
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"They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago."
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"Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations."
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"When I went to school every teacher had a BOARD of education."
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"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
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"A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination."
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"For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do."
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"Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform."
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"Reading books is like wearing winter clothes, it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul."
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"The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut."
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"Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return."
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"You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."
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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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"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be."
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"The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent."
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"All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield."
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"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."
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"During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive."
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"Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing."
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"Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations."
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