946 private quotes tagged education

“I did get a degree in special education.” — Clay Aiken

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“The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.” — Chaka Fattah

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“Let people have an education and you can't stop them.” — La Monte Young

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“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.” — Jesse Helms

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“Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.” — Timothy Murphy

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“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.” — Trevor Nunn

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“No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.” — Bobby Scott

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“In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.” — Bobby Scott

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“I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.” — Jenna Bush

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“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.” — George Savile

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“I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.” — Alexander Wang

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“Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.” — Bobby Scott

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“Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.” — Bobby Scott

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“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.” — Anna Friel

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“A college education shows a man how little other people know.” — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.” — Jacques Barzun

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“I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.” — Jenna Bush

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“Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.” — Michael Gove

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“You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.” — Meg Whitman

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“Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.” — Michael N. Castle

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“The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.” — Ron Kind

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“What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.” — Michael Gove

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“And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.” — Terrence Howard

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“Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.” — Meg Whitman

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