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" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "

Daniel J. Boorstin

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" To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. "

" My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle... I am here today because of them. My success is their success. Their sacrifice and perseverance made my education possible. "

Alexander Acosta

" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

Maria Montessori

" I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working. "

" 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. "

" When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. "

" A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations. "

" 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. "

" Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. "

" It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be. "

" In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. "

William J. Clinton

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

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

Malala Yousafzai

" To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us. "

Caroline Kennedy

" Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. "

Kerry Washington

" Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people. "

" After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level. "

" My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back. "

" I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. "

" Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. "

" When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises. "

" One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. "

Chris Van Hollen

" You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. "

" In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared. "

" Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Education, like neurosis, begins at home. "

Milton Sapirstein

" Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. "