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" Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. "

Oswald Chambers

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" You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too. "

" I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write. "

" We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" 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. "

" An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. "

" The only real failure in life is one not learned from. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

" I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. "

Wilma Mankiller

" Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. "

" Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations. "

" Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. "

" Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. "

" I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change. "

Randi Weingarten

" Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. "

" As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything. "

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. "

" Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. "

" I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. "

Take For Granted

" For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. "

" Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. "

" In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford. "

" I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward. "

Chuck Fleischmann

" I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. "

" People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. "

" You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. "

Tammy Faye Bakker

" But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. "

" Education is the development of power and ideal. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. "

" Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. "

The Most Important

" We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives. "