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" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Christian de Duve

" If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. "

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" Education is the transmission of civilization. "

" Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. "

" Public education is an investment in our future. "

" 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 father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker. "

" There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.' "

Richard Sherman

" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "

" A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "

" You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops. "

" 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. "

" While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country. "

" Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message. "

" I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people. "

" The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. "

Michael Jackson

" I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. "

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" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "

" Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. "

Marian Wright Edelman

" 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. "

" Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. "

Wilma Mankiller

" Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. "

" When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. "

Maria Montessori

" I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. "

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

" In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? "