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" A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. "

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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

" We cannot learn men from books. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' "

" Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. "

" Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been. "

Richard Branson

" Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. "

" One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. "

Chris Van Hollen

" I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. "

William Glasser

" At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education. "

" Your library is your paradise. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" I am very much a person who likes to change with the times. Education is what it is all about. "

" If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. "

Cornelius Vanderbilt

" As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. "

" 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. "

" Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. "

" Public education is an investment in our future. "

" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "

" Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that. "

" While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country. "

" The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. "

" Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. "

" Education is neither eastern nor western. "

Malala Yousafzai

" The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. "

" I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education. "

" Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. "

" Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it. "

Shelley Berkley

" I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand. "

" A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois