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" America is the best half-educated country in the world. "

Nicholas M. Butler

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

" Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children. "

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

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. "

" If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. "

Malala Yousafzai

" That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return. "

Gaston Caperton

" To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality. "

Sebastian Pinera

" In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

" It is always in season for old men to learn. "

" I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education. "

Cesare Beccaria

" 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

" Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all. "

" Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that. "

" Education is hanging around until you've caught on. "

" We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

" He that loves reading has everything within his reach. "

" 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. "

" There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. "

Galileo Galilei

" The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free. "

" We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind. "

" I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need. "

" 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

" I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures. "

" If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. "

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

Benjamin Franklin