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Education Quotes
"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."
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"At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security."
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"NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government."
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"Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy."
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"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
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"'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms."
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"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
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"Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias."
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"According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class."
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"I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education."
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"Education is meaningless without manners."
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"Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education."
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"I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
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"The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects."
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"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."
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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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"He found a set of encyclopedias-like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky."
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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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"It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue."
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"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."
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"Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school."
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"There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal."
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"If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class."
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"The age of ex cathedra culture in education is definitely finished. Thesedays, we use modern teaching methods in line with advances in technologythat changes culture and even society itself. However, the biggest challenge for a modern education system is how to prepare new generations for living in a highly competitive world full of uncertainties."
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"Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh."
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"The foundation of today's knowledge economy is the quality of its school leavers. We have now decided that the quality of learning outcomes will be the Government's primary objective. Accordingly, we will allocate an increasing share of resources under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan to quality. These funds will be used to promote local initiatives and innovations to improve learning outcomes."
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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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"I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works."
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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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"The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society."
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"When I went to school every teacher had a BOARD of education."
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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"The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations."
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"Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher."
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