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Education Quotes
"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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"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."
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"My father had very little formal education."
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"I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years."
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"They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago."
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"You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had."
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"Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know."
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"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."
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"I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools."
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"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy."
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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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"There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily."
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"With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs."
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"Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation."
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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
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"I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools."
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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
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"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
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"An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently."
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"They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college."
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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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"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head."
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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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"I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have."
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"Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody."
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"I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too."
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"Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing."
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"The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision."
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"As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty."
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"Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do."
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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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"Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary."
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"We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us."
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"I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it."
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"Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food. The fact is, what you feed your kids is important, and that includes what they put in their heads as well as what they put in their bellies."
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"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."
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