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Education Quotes
"Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary."
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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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"As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy."
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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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"We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more."
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"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
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"Be slow to teach, and quick to learn."
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"You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention."
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"In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old."
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"I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education."
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"If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields."
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"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education."
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"To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still remember every word. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words right and collect my A."
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"MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR. AT LEAST, YOU GET TO READ STUFF THAT'S WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO SEE - TO WHAT MAKES SOMEONE ANGRIEST, OR THE MOST EXCITED IN SOME OTHER WAY. IT'S SO EASY!; I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ENGLISH MAJORS!"
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"I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months."
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"You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."
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"I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements."
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"Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week."
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"Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have."
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"A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract."
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"But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering."
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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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"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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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
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"Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability."
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"It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school."
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"Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
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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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"As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care."
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"I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948."
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"It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education."
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"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
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"The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve."
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