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" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "

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" My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. "

" Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. "

" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "

" The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things. "

" Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. "

" Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. "

" I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. "

" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. "

" No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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. "

Jackie Robinson

" I went to a regular school... education kept me sane. "

" With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. "

Jennifer Granholm

" Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods. "

Edward Thorndike

" No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. "

" Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. "

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" Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. "

" My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. "

Stanley B. Prusiner

" We cannot learn men from books. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" 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. "

John W. Gardner

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

" What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there. "

" 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. "

" The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. "

" Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes. "

" Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. "

" We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools. "

" There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist. "

" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "

Sebastian Thrun

" Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class. "

Thomas E. Perez

" The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not. "