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Education Quotes
"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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"There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance."
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"In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old."
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"Give good toys to your children and teach them Human Values and About Human Life,Teach them difference between human and toys.Teach them Toys do not breath But Human Do. Teach them Toy do not feel pain But Human Do.Teach them Things for use and Human for love. otherwise they will start Play with humans,They will think they are good Alive Toys and will never realize how they destroyed someone's life."
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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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"There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females."
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"I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools."
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"When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment."
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"Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it."
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"By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools."
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"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems."
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"I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession."
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"I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I."
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"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse."
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"I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life."
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"The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve."
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"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me."
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"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."
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"After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education."
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"What do you think that fish is?' Sam asked Astrid.,' she said.'Yeah?' Sam made a face. 'Do you think it's okay to eat?'? Inedible? Joke, duh. Try to keep up, Sam, I made that really easy for you.'Sam smiled. 'You know, a real genius would have known I wouldn't get it. Ergo, you are not a real genius. Hah. That's right. I threw down an 'ergo.''She gave him a pitying look. 'That's very impressive, Sam. Especially from a boy who has twenty-two different uses for the word 'dude."
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"From a book you can learn the theory but it takes practise to learn how to live life."
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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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"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 don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community."
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"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers."
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"Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education."
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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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"You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R."
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"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
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"Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime."
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"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."
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"Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need."
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"School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible."
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"The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'"
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"You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention."
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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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"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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"Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher."
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