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Education Quotes
"International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief."
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"But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care."
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"I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach in to the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's okay to feel like this."
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"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
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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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"Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects."
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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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"We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary."
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"If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge."
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"All the world talks, knowledge or information, takes you nowhere unless it's applied into life. It's only the experience, which allows you to see, beyond the present state."
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"I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools."
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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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"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."
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"Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?"
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"Education leads to intellectual life."
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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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"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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"I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant."
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"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed."
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"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead."
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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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"Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor."
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"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
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"My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing."
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"Sure, it's simple writing for kids, just as simple as bringing them up."
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"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."
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"I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about."
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