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Education Quotes
"There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily."
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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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"This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back."
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"The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts."
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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 remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement."
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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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"A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences."
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"On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful."
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"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."
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"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University."
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
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"Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."
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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 scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about."
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"The most important lessons are learned during the process. Pay attention to the process."
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"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."
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"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
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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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"The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner."
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"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."
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"Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked."
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"Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now..."
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"By the way, don't thank me for saving you, thank the lifeguards. If it was up to me, I would've just carried you off to the building by the boardwalk that said SURGERY. I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between a family doctor treating you for the sniffles, and a guy who actually owns and knows how to use an operating table."
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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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"It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down."
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"If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education."
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"The topics we learn from our four core subjects during our childhood and adolescent stage of our lives help us to understand the norms of common knowledge and take pride of our citizenship."
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"Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state."
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"One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him."
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"Encourage your children to read more and watch television less."
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"Education is the mother of leadership."
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"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
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