946 private quotes tagged education

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.” — John W. Gardner

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“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.” — William Ralph Inge

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“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.” — Evan Esar

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“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

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“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.” — Annie Dillard

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“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.” — David Suzuki

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“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.” — Al Pacino

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“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” — William S. Burroughs

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“Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.” — Malcolm X

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“My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.” — Ronnie James Dio

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“I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.” — Michelle Obama

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“Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.” — Tallulah Bankhead

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“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” — Walter Scott

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“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.” — William Hazlitt

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“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.” — Earl Warren

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“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.” — Liam Neeson

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“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.” — John Locke

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“The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” — Abigail Adams

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“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.” — Booker T. Washington

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