946 private quotes tagged education

“And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?” — Frederic Bastiat

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“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.” — Robert. L. Ehrlich

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“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.” — Kathleen Turner

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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.” — Horace Mann

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“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.” — Matthew Morrison

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“It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.” — Shannon Miller

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“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

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“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” — William Morris

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“Education is not so important as people think.” — Elizabeth Bowen

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“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.” — Gary Locke

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“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” — Chanakya

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“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.” — Russell Baker

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“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” — Clarence Thomas

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“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.” — Noam Chomsky

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“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” — John Ruskin

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“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.” — Desmond Tutu

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“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.” — E. O. Wilson

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