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" For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. "

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" 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

" Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing. "

Mother Angelica

" One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way. "

" My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. "

" Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

" Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity. "

" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

" I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward. "

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

" Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. "

Albert Einstein

" Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student. "

Randi Weingarten

" I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. "

" 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. "

" Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. "

James A. Garfield

" I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. "

" Good questions outrank easy answers. "

" Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. "

Donella Meadows

" In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. "

" My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life. "

Baruj Benacerraf

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

" The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. "

" We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. "

Maria Montessori

" People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. "

" The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. "

William S. Burroughs

" The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. "

Abraham Lincoln

" We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care. "

" Education is freedom. "

" The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things. "

Mario J. Molina

" Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health. "