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" A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. "
Edmund Barton
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" The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. "
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" There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things. "
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" If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. "
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" What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. "
Joseph Addison
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" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "
Kamala Harris
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" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "
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" 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. "
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" The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was. "
Ken Robinson
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Child
" Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. "
John Maynard Keynes
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" Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities. "
Solomon Ortiz
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" 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. "
Al McGuire
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Education
Go
" It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. "
Paulo Freire
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" I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. "
Naveen Jain
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Education
Focus
" Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings. "
Betsy DeVos
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" Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
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" The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. "
Alvin Toffler
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" Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. "
Harvey Cushing
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Up
" 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. "
Tom Brokaw
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" True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. "
Bryant H. McGill
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Living
" I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. "
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" While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. "
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" If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. "
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" Education is all a matter of building bridges. "
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" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "
Daniel J. Boorstin
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" I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. "
Ellen Ochoa
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" Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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" Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. "
Blaise Pascal
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Anything
" The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. "
Thomas Piketty
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Always
Knowledge
" Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. "
Horace Mann
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