946 private quotes tagged education

“I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.” — Cate Blanchett

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“By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.” — John Dryden

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“Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.” — Daniel Goleman

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“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.” — Benjamin Carson

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“'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.” — Dianne Feinstein

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“If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'” — Benjamin Carson

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“Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“The formal education that I received made little sense to me.” — Twyla Tharp

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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” — Henry Adams

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“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.” — William Glasser

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“My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.” — Twyla Tharp

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“When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.” — Arlen Specter

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“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.” — Arlen Specter

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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” — Henry Adams

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“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” — Michelle Obama

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“You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.” — Emeril Lagasse

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“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.” — A. A. Milne

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“Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.” — Bob Beauprez

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“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.” — Thomas Frank

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“To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.” — William Glasser

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“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.” — Marian Wright Edelman

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“My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.” — Spike Lee

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“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.” — Sammy Davis, Jr.

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