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" Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life. "

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" Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. "

John W. Gardner

" I need to complete my homework on time. "

Malala Yousafzai

" My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted. "

" Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country. "

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" If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. "

" This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. "

William Glasser

" I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write. "

" In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. "

" Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. "

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" The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. "

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" Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. "

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" To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. "

" The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. "

" The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. "

" That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education. "

" When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises. "

" Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get. "

" Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. "

" The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. "

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" I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing. "

" There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. "

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" Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive. "

" I never let schooling interfere with my education. "

" We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young. "

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" The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries. "

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" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "

" Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. "

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