946 private quotes tagged education

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

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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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“I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.” — Wilma Mankiller

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

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“If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.” — Jane Fonda

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

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“The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.” — Orson Scott Card

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“I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.” — Haile Gebrselassie

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“And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.” — Wavy Gravy

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“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?” — Beah Richards

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“My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.” — Adam Carolla

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“In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.” — Earl Warren

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“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.” — Tryon Edwards

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“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” — Robert M. Hutchins

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“Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.” — Ric Keller

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“When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.” — Mary J. Blige

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“Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.” — Ron Lewis

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“For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.” — King Abdullah II

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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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“More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.” — John le Carre

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“This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.” — William Glasser

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“My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.” — Clarence Thomas

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“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” — Michael Jackson

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“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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