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

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" Read in order to live. "

Gustave Flaubert

" I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. "

John Maynard Keynes

" Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education. "

" We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. "

" Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. "

" I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" 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

" 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

" Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. "

" Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category. "

" Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system. "

" Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. "

Joshua Reynolds

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

" Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. "

" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "

" Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. "

" When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. "

Maria Montessori

" I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working. "

" An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. "

" 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

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

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

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

" It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. "

" The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. "

Michael Jackson

" Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions. "

Phyllis Schlafly

" Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it. "