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Education Quotes
"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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"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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"There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful."
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"Education has for its object the formation of character."
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"I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases."
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"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
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"As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education."
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"We are the transition from one education to the other."
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"One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound."
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"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."
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"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
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"A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States."
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"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."
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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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"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries."
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"I'm committed to universal health coverage and education."
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"I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television."
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"If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for student, as a father, mother, he will be better than the teacher, who read all the books, but has no love for the cause, nor to the students. If the teacher combines love to the cause and to his disciples, he is the perfect teacher."
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"With the known, you simply repeat the process. With the unknown, you access the new doorways to life."
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"The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education."
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"What is your collective GPA for this year?"Not as high as I'd like it to be.Freud steepled his fingers in front of his mouth. "What about your parents?"I don't know. They haven't been in school for a while."
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"I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman."
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"Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities."
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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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"Math has never made any sense to me."
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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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"Sex education has to do with what's in people's head."
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"Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience."
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"Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country."
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"Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay."
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"He found a set of encyclopedias-like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky."
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"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."
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"Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children."
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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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"If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will."
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"A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance."
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