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" For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. "

Lafcadio Hearn

Education

Bible

Knowledge

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" Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education. "

" The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education. "

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" Read in order to live. "

" People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace. "

" Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. "

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

" I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing. "

" So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible. "

Gordon Gee

Challenge

College

" 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. "

" Education is hanging around until you've caught on. "

" 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. "

" There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. "

" The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. "

" Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. "

" I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. "

" If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. "

" True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. "

" My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. "

" Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope. "

" I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power. "

" The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. "

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Kind

Philosophy

" We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

Education

World

Our

" Your library is your paradise. "

" I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. "

" You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops. "

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

" I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. "

" For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. "