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Education Quotes
"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."
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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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"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education."
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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 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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"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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"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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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
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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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"The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics."
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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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"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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"The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision."
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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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"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
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"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
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"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."
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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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"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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"When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."
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"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
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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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"There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily."
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