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Education Quotes
"Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."
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"My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home."
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"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
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"Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it."
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"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
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"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me."
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"I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have."
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"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
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"We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery."
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"Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers."
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"The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals."
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"Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education."
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"Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada."
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"My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student."
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"People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills."
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"With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job."
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"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."
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"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
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"Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat."
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"I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it."
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"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University."
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"Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked."
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"The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)"
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"I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward."
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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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"For a long time, priority has been given to spread education. This was necessary. But today more than expanding education what is necessary is to improve the quality of education. We will have to shift our priority from literacy campaign to good education. From now onward, more than schooling, we will have to lay stress on learning."
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"In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match."
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"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
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"No state legislature ever built a great university."
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"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
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"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."
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"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
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"There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life."
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"Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child."
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"In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective."
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"Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline."
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