946 private quotes tagged education

“The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.” — Bill Richardson

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“President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.” — Cristina Saralegui

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“No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.” — David Baker

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“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.” — Robert M. Hutchins

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“THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.” — Joseph Lancaster

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“I believe in local control of education.” — Russ Feingold

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“I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.” — Richard Cobden

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“State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.” — Arne Duncan

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“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.” — Sidney Blumenthal

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“A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.” — Joseph Lancaster

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“I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.” — Larry Niven

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“The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.” — Joseph Lancaster

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“In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.” — James Payn

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“I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.” — Kent McCord

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“I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.” — Alonzo Mourning

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“It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.” — Hans-Georg Gadamer

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“A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.” — Arne Duncan

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“Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.” — Arne Duncan

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“Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.” — Arne Duncan

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“The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.” — Joseph Lancaster

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“May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.” — Joseph Lancaster

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“The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.” — Bryant McGill

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“I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.” — Jane D. Hull

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“A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.” — Phillip E. Johnson

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“In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.” — Richard Cobden

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