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" 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. "

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

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" The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. "

" Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

" Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. "

Harvey Cushing

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" A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. "

" Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. "

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

" We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. "

" Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education. "

Jameela Jamil

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" Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings. "

" A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. "

" Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. "

" Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. "

" Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. "

" The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things. "

" The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything. "

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

" I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. "

" But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. "

" The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. "

" A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred. "

" Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. "

" 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. "

" I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things. "

" 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. "

" Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. "

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