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" Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. "

" Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been. "

Richard Branson

" Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. "

" If you have four years to complete your college education, do it. "

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" A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.' "

" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "

Michelle Alexander

" 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 think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. "

William Glasser

" I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. "

" My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. "

" In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. "

" With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' "

" The mere imparting of information is not education. "

Carter G. Woodson

" I am a part of everything that I have read. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Every educated person is a future enemy. "

" I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt. "

" There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body. You cannot gain knowledge just by mugging books, but you can definitely learn things from your practical experiences. "

" I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. "

" Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question. "

Orison Swett Marden

" To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. "

" Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed. "

" Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. "