946 private quotes tagged education

“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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“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.” — John Updike

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“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” — James A. Garfield

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“Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.” — Caroline Kennedy

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“When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.” — Angela Bassett

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“If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.” — William Glasser

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“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.” — Hosea Ballou

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“Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.” — William Glasser

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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 defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.” — Lewis Thomas

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“I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.” — Jerry Lewis

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“We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.” — Arthur Ashe

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“Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.” — Bill Vaughan

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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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“The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.” — Dennis Miller

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“There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.” — will.i.am

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“I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.” — William Glasser

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

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“Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.” — Carol Bellamy

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“I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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

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“Education is for growth and fulfillment.” — Tom Robbins

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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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