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Education Quotes
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
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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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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
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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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"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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"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."
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"I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month."
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"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
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"Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations."
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"The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand."
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"Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries."
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"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse."
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"In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits."
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
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"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."
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"I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel."
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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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"The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else."
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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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"The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable."
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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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"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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"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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"It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth."
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"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."
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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 think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
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"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems."
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"Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development."
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"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
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"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."
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"Education is the investment our generation makes in the future."
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