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" How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. "

Alexandre Dumas

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

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" The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. "

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" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "

" I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life. "

" That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return. "

Gaston Caperton

" It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. "

" Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations. "

" I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. "

" Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. "

" The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. "

" When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference. "

Mark Zuckerberg

" 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

" Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. "

Gouverneur Morris

" There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. "

" 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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" Education is the foundation upon which we build our future. "

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" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "

" The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. "

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" Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility. "

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

Albert Einstein

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

" 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. "

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" The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. "

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" I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education. "

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" I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. "

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