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Education Quotes
"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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"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."
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"Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost."
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
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"A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own."
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"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
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"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day."
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"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students."
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"I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
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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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"The art of not reading is a very important one. [. . .] [Y]ou should remember that he who writes for fools always find a large public. " A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: For life is short."
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"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."
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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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"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
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"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world."
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"You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education."
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"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."
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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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"My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence."
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"There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
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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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