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" Education is the foundation upon which we build our future. "

Christine Gregoire

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" In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. "

" Education is a precondition to survival in America today. "

Marian Wright Edelman

" If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. "

Galileo Galilei

" Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. "

" Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. "

Charlotte Bronte

" If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? "

Maria Montessori

" You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. "

" The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. "

" I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. "

" By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in. "

" You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment. "

" To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. "

Aleister Crowley

" My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. "

" Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. "

" If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. "

Oscar Hammerstein II

" Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. "

" Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence. "

" What people want is their basic needs. So I'm trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life. "

" Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. "

" One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. "

" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "

" Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system. "

" You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education. "

" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "

" All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education. "

" One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits. "

Michelle Bachelet

" Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes. "

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" The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez