Famous Quotes: Education

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
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And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.
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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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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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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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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
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It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
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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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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
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What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
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A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
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Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
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To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
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