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" Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. "

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" Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent. "

Robert Kennedy

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" 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. "

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

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

" I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level! "

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

" How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival. "

" True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. "

" 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. "

" Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. "

" Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. "

" Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward. "

" Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. "

" For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. "

" I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages? "

" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "

" The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. "

" To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Way

Education

" Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. "

" The only real failure in life is one not learned from. "

" No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. "

Winston Churchill

Elections

Education

" There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist. "

" I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19. "

" We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. "

" 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. "

" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "

" The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker. "

" Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. "

Marian Wright Edelman

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Community

" As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people. "

" Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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Care