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" Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. "

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" We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. "

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" I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. "

" The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn. "

" Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability. "

" If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. "

" Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education! "

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

Ray Bradbury

" 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. "

" I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' "

" Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. "

Mahatma Gandhi

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Education

" Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations. "

" Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. "

" It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. "

" In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. "

" Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. "

Parker Palmer

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" 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. "

" Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States. "

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" 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. "

" I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. "

" I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "

" If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. "

" Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects. "

" After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job. "

" The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. "

" He who laughs most, learns best. "

John Cleese

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" Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. "

" If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion. "

" Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right. "

" 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. "