Famous Quotes: Education

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
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You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
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We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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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.
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Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.
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Having an education is invaluable.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
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As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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