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" Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. "

Geoffrey Canada

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" In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

" When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming. "

Geoffrey Canada

" One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education. "

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

" In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared. "

" Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. "

" Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. "

" The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. "

" For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution. "

" A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. "

" The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. "

John W. Gardner

" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "

" I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. "

" Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. "

Hillary Clinton

" His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. "

" Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal. "

" Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. "

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

Robert Kiyosaki

" SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status. "

William H. McRaven

" I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. "

" Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. "

Elizabeth Blackwell

" Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. "

" Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

Albert Einstein

" Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that. "

" I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact. "

" The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. "

Michael Jackson

" It is such a tricky transition between education and work. "

James William Middleton

" Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. "

" Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. "

Rutherford B. Hayes