Famous Quotes: Education

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
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They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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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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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
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In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
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