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" A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. "

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" Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. "

" Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system. "

" The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. "

" My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education. "

Edward P. Jones

" I love soccer. "

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

" True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. "

" 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? "

" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "

" You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education. "

" The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. "

John W. Gardner

" To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many. "

" Thieves must sit in prison. "

" Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. "

" Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. "

" It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. "

" How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here. "

" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "

" I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. "

" You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. "

" I think happiness is love. "

" If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. "

" Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it. "

" If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. "

Sargent Shriver

" The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information. "

" I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. "

" Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "

William Butler Yeats

" One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree. "