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" Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime. "

Matt Cartwright

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Eating

Education

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" The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sweet

Books

Learning

" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "

" The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. "

" I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture. "

" I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in. "

" Education, like neurosis, begins at home. "

Milton Sapirstein

Begins

Home

" Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

Value

Education

Mother

" You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. "

" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "

" The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. "

" We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens. "

" East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography. "

" We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that. "

" The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Intelligence

Education

Character

" We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. "

" Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education. "

" It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education. "

" After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job. "

" 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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Better

Education

" Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems. "

" The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. "

" As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people. "

" Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. "

" Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. "

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

" I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education. "

" The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. "

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

Ray Bradbury

" All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades. "

" We need a comprehensive focus on infrastructure that supports not just transportation but also broadband, education, healthcare, and our environment. "