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" After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job. "

Jackie Robinson

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" I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray. It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work. "

" I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. "

" No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy. "

" To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. "

" As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. "

" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "

Abraham Lincoln

" 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. "

" Education is the transmission of civilization. "

" Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. "

" Education is the development of power and ideal. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice. "

John Paul Jones

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

Phillip E. Johnson

" The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. "

" The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination. "

" Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country. "

Emmanuel Macron

" A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. "

" Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. "

" In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions. "

" My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. "

" All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. "

" Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment. "

Jackie Robinson

" The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. "

" In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. "

Malala Yousafzai

" I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes. "

Jessica Chastain

" It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. "

William J. Clinton

" The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. "

John F. Kennedy

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