946 private quotes tagged education

“My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.” — Renee Fleming

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“My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.” — Melinda Gates

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“The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.” — John Jay Hooker

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“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.” — Mary Astell

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“In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.” — David Miliband

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“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.” — Ai Weiwei

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“Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.” — Todd English

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“Education is a precondition to survival in America today.” — Marian Wright Edelman

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“I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.” — Marian Wright Edelman

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“The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.” — Rick Ross

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“Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.” — Alan K. Simpson

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“One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.” — Michael Morpurgo

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“Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.” — Zhuang Zi

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“The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.” — Warren Farrell

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“Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.” — John Baldacci

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“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.” — Michael Morpurgo

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“I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.” — Philip Pullman

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“But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.” — Jeffrey Archer

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“I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!” — Philip Pullman

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“One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.” — Chris Van Hollen

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“I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.” — Wallace Shawn

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“Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.” — George Will

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“Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.” — Kathleen Blanco

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“Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.” — Major Owens

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“Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.” — Barbara Boxer

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