946 private quotes tagged education

“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 do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

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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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“The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.” — Lucy Powell

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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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“It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.” — Adam Weishaupt

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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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“In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” — Russell Means

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

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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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“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.” — Jane Fonda

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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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“To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.” — Epictetus

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“Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.” — Isabel Allende

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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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“Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.” — Alexis Herman

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

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“The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.” — Katherine Dunham

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“Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.” — Karl Kraus

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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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