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" Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. "

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" The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. "

George Santayana

" If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. "

" The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. "

" The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. "

" Our universities and museums are respected around the country. "

" Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. "

Kathleen Blanco

" Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Let's bear down on what we can do together: keeping Tennessee a state with a strong financial condition, helping Tennessee be the number one location in the Southeast for higher-quality jobs. And making certain that all Tennesseans, regardless of their circumstances, have an opportunity for higher-quality education. "

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

Marian Wright Edelman

" 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. "

John W. Gardner

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

" There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want. "

Hillary Clinton

" I cannot live without books. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price. "

Higher Education

" This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. "

William Glasser

" The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things. "

" Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete. "

" If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. "

" 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. "

" The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. "

" I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. "

Sandra Day O'Connor

" Education, like neurosis, begins at home. "

Milton Sapirstein

" Education is the movement from darkness to light. "

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

" For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough. "

" To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that. "

" For me, education was power. "

" At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education. "

" If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. "