Famous Quotes: Education

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
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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 we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
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We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
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As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
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Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
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For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
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It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.
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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.
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