946 private quotes tagged education

“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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“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.” — Alice Miller

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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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“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.” — Samuel Richardson

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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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“Education is not so important as people think.” — Elizabeth Bowen

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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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“Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.” — Angela Davis

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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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“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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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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“Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.” — Tom Hiddleston

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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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“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.” — Jane Austen

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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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“Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.” — Edward Thorndike

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“I've never been a big believer in formal education.” — Megan Fox

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“I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.” — J. C. Watts

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“You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.” — Malcolm X

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“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.” — Robert Kiyosaki

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