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" Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility. "

Rose George

Health

Education

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" Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. "

" Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. "

" The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective. "

" 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. "

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

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

" A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. "

" As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money). "

" Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. "

" During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. "

" I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Natural

Man

" Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects. "

" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "

" We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. "

" Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. "

" I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. "

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

" Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime. "

" My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle... I am here today because of them. My success is their success. Their sacrifice and perseverance made my education possible. "

" Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it. "

" My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. "

" Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. "

" Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. "

" The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. "

" The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. "

" There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors. "

" The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. "

" Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. "

" You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison. "

" 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. "