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" I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. "

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" Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative. "

" A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred. "

Randi Weingarten

" It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. "

William J. Clinton

" Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. "

" Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability. "

" The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn. "

" I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions. "

Phyllis Schlafly

" In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. "

" Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars. "

" If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. "

" To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model. "

" Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "

" The best escalator to opportunity in America is education. "

Nicholas Kristof

" If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? "

Maria Montessori

" The mere imparting of information is not education. "

Carter G. Woodson

" A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. "

" In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

" The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. "

George Santayana

" Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. "

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

" The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

" 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. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values. "

" Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. "

" 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. "