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Education Quotes
"Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up."
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"Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges."
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"Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it."
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"The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable."
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"In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died."
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
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"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
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"Read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism."
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"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
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"I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy."
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"There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring."
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"My father had very little formal education."
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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
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"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
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"I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others."
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"Education in the form of knowledge and wisdom are only as powerful as how we use them in our daily lives."
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"As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all."
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
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"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."
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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
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"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."
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"Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development."
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"Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word."
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"Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
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"Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that."
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"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."
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"We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach."
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"Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?".""Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google."
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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
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"Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports."
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