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" I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society. "

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" Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it. "

Mike Gallagher

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You

Think

" Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work. "

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Work

Mind

Men

" One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. "

" When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Power

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach. "

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

School

Children

Education

" How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival. "

" If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Color

People

You

" I want to speak to people directly as much as possible. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Possible

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Want

" It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Way

" The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. "

" The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. "

" Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Society

Education

Generation

" Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. "

Barack Obama

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

" We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it. "

" I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Never

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Argument

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Way

Education

" American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. "

" Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education. "

" If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. "

" Sex education has to do with what's in people's head. "

" While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. "

" Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it. "

" When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. "

" There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education. "

" Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions. "

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

" We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. "

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