Famous Quotes: Education

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
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My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.
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You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
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In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
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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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I've never been a big believer in formal education.
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If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
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Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
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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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