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" During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle. "

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" Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. "

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" We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. "

" There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. "

" The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. "

" To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "

" We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it. "

" Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. "

" There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. "

" If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. "

" I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. "

" Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right. "

" Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. "

" My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. "

" I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. "

" Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. "

" The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable. "

" If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? "

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. "

" Public education is an investment in our future. "

" The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy. "

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

" Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that. "

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

" 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. "

" If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all. "

" Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent. "

" No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. "

" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "

" Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. "