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" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

Colin Powell

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Education

Children

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" The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education. "

" If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. "

" Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. "

" Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families. "

" I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. "

" Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave the home; that young Afghan women today are not only accessing an education but are able to meet young people from around the world and cheer on a robot of their own making is something beautiful. "

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

" I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward. "

" Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Education

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" President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education. "

" I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education. "

" Without tact you can learn nothing. "

" I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. "

" There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with. "

" 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. "

" Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

Ray Bradbury

" Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. "

" The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. "

" I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education. "

" I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education. "

" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "

" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "

" With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. "