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Education Quotes
"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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"If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else."
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"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
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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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"Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges."
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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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"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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"We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit."
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"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."
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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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"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education."
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"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."
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"If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how and what we ought to admire; and if we cannot arrive at this combination of admiration with knowledge, rather to believe that we are dull, than that the rest of the world has been imposed on."
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"I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school."
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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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"In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school."
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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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"What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life."
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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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"At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education."
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"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
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"I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer."
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"Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged."
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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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"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in 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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"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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"Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary."
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"The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable."
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