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" As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign. "

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" Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. "

Solomon Ortiz

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" Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. "

" Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right. "

" Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. "

" The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education. "

" Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "

" I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. "

" You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew. "

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

" Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Society

Education

Generation

" For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. "

" Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. "

" School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. "

" Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations. "

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

" Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. "

" The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. "

" I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. "

" I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace. "

" The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. "

" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "

" It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. "

" A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. "

" Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. "

" Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance. "

Shiv Nadar

Importance

Education

" Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "

" It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Need

Education

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

" One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so. "

" My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. "