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" A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. "

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" My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. "

" An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. "

" I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things. "

" I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. "

David Rockefeller

" The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price. "

Higher Education

" Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. "

" I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture. "

" Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for. "

" Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone. "

Richard E. Robbins

" I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life. "

" Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports. "

" Education, for me, has helped me in my music. "

" When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life. "

" Governments never learn. Only people learn. "

Milton Friedman

" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

" I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. "

Take For Granted

" A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. "

A. Bartlett Giamatti

" Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave the home; that young Afghan women today are not only accessing an education but are able to meet young people from around the world and cheer on a robot of their own making is something beautiful. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" Education is all a matter of building bridges. "

" Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents. "

" Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. "

" Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. "

Elizabeth Blackwell

" A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. "

Phillip E. Johnson

" Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative. "

" I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. "

" The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. "

" While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. "

" If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. "

Janet Napolitano

" It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. "

" You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. "