946 private quotes tagged education

“When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.” — Joseph Lancaster

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“When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.” — Philip Emeagwali

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“The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.” — Alphonso Jackson

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“I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.” — Charles Kennedy

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“I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.” — Charles Kennedy

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“Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.” — Charles Kennedy

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“My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.” — Matt Damon

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“I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.” — Callan McAuliffe

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“In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.” — Mike Rogers

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“Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.” — Bob Riley

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“A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.” — Agnes de Mille

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“The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.” — Rick Santorum

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“It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.” — Frank Shorter

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“Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.” — Yoshihiko Noda

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“The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.” — Bob Riley

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“And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.” — Sam Donaldson

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“Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.” — Bjorn Lomborg

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“But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.” — Jack Dee

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“In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.” — Gael Garcia Bernal

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“I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.” — George J. Mitchell

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“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.” — William John Wills

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“I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.” — Kamala Harris

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“Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.” — Eliza Dushku

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“Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.” — Anne Campbell

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