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" Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

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" In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish. "

Christian de Duve

" Education is a precondition to survival in America today. "

Marian Wright Edelman

" All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance. "

Winnie Byanyima

" There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things. "

" His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. "

" Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. "

Elizabeth Blackwell

" Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. "

" The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was. "

" Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa. "

" My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. "

" Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

Geoffrey Canada

" Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. "

" The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

" I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life. "

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

Georgia O'Keeffe

" I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question. "

" Governments never learn. Only people learn. "

Milton Friedman

" My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties. "

" In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. "

" Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. "

" Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. "