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Education Quotes
"While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally."
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"School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee."
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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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"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man."
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"Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to."
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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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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
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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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"We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!"
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"In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country."
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"Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction."
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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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"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."
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"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills."
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"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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"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included."
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"Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges."
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"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools."
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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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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
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"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."
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"I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
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"Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated."
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"There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people."
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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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"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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"Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled."
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"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."
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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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"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."
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"Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers."
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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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"Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school."
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