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Education Quotes
"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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"I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal."
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"This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education."
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"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
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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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"So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them."
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"As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter."
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"What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education."
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"The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education."
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"The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education."
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"Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty."
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"Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality."
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"When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life."
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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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"It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education."
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"We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another."
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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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"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."
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"As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education."
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"Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education."
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"You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances."
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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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"During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations."
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"Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence."
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"One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so."
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"Reading,' he says, 'is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead....''Or that is not present because it does not yet exist, something desire, feared, possible or impossible,' Ludmilla says. 'Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be...."
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"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."
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"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart."
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"Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life."
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"The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education."
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"Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do."
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"I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that."
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"Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?"
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."
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"Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted."
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