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" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

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" We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. "

" 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. "

" I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life. "

" My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. "

" My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. "

" Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. "

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" I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education. "

" This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. "

Carter G. Woodson

" A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want. "

" Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. "

" You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. "

" We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. "

" I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. "

" If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school. "

" Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' "

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student. "

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" The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals. "

" The mere imparting of information is not education. "

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" I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. "

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

" The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. "

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" Humor is the most engaging cowardice. "

" The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. "