946 private quotes tagged education

“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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“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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“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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“I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'” — Samuel L. Jackson

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.” — Evel Knievel

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

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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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“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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“Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.” — Mary Harris Jones

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

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