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" Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. "

Joshua Reynolds

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" Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people. "

" The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. "

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Malala Yousafzai

" 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. "

" Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?' "

" Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. "

Giacomo Casanova

" The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. "

" There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry. "

" I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level! "

" Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. "

Martin Seligman

" The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education. "

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. "

Sargent Shriver

" You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. "

" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

" 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

" Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. "

" Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message. "

" I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. "

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

" Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. "

" I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve. "

" 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. "

" My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. "

" Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations. "

" 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. "

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