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Education Quotes
"All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part."
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"Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine."
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"Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them."
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"Education is the mother of leadership."
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"We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education."
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"I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability."
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"Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope."
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"Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean."
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"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
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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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"No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy."
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"For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind."
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"Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing."
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"The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion."
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"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
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"I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided."
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"This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth."
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"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
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"I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society."
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"I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life."
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"Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them."
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"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget."
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"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent."
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"The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience."
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"I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now."
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"The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace."
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