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Education Quotes
"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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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
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"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
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"Education enables people and societies to be what they can be."
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"In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits."
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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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"But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education."
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"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
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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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"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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"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 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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"Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now..."
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"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
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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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"The mere imparting of information is not education."
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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."
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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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"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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"By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children."
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"My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history."
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"To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book."
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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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"Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made...."
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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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"The best teachers are the ones who give you a hard time, they may not intend it, but you can intend to learn!!!"
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"I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools."
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"All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield."
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"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
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"If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else."
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"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."
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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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"I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology."
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"Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged."
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"Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state."
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