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Education Quotes
"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
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"The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education."
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"A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested."
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"Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it."
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"I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment."
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"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."
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"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer."
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"The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world."
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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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"Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic."
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"I don't have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes-and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don't think jokes even belong in proper books. I won't bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature."
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"I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne."
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"My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense."
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"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate."
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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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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
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"Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education."
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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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"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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"Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education."
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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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"History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him."
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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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"You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know.... For no one is prevented from leaving behind the disadvantage of ignorance and seeking the advantage of knowledge."
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"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."
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"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
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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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"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
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"There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools."
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