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" Education is the development of power and ideal. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

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" Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. "

" If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. "

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" There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education. "

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" My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. "

" There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming. "

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" You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. "

" We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education. "

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

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" All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one. "

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" We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. "

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" The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. "

" It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. "

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

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

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" In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. "

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" We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. "

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" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "

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" 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. "

" A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice. "

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