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" Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. "

Barbara Mikulski

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" There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others. "

" The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries. "

" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "

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

" The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn. "

" Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. "

George Washington Carver

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" Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. "

" Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. "

" Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children. "

" Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. "

" I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give. "

" He who laughs most, learns best. "

John Cleese

Education

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

" He that loves reading has everything within his reach. "

" An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. "

" Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits. "

" Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. "

" You could get an entire computer science education for free right now. "

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

" The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. "

" There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education. "

" Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. "

" Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that. "

" Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in. "

" A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. "

" Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. "

" Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes. "

" I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. "