946 private quotes tagged education

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

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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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“Every educated person is a future enemy.” — Martin Bormann

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“I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.” — Al Green

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“It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.” — Allen Klein

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“The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.” — Ed Markey

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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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“Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.” — Lawrence Welk

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“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.” — Abu Bakr

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“An educated people can be easily governed.” — Frederick The Great

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“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.” — Tammy Faye Bakker

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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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“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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“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.” — Tallulah Bankhead

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“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“Education is all a matter of building bridges.” — Ralph Ellison

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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.” — Abigail Van Buren

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“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” — G. M. Trevelyan

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“I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.” — Eva Longoria

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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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“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.” — Al McGuire

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“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.” — Evander Holyfield

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“Responsibility educates.” — Wendell Phillips

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“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.” — Charles Barkley

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“My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.” — Ezra Koenig

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