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" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "

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" The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. "

Ken Robinson

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" Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent. "

" Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. "

" The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. "

" I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college. "

" And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background. "

" You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. "

" On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. "

" My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. "

" Susan Burton's life story - filled with trauma, struggle, and true heroism - is precisely the kind of story that has the potential to change the way we view our world. "

" My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. "

" I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education. "

" We need better public education and more realistic education. "

" Let's bear down on what we can do together: keeping Tennessee a state with a strong financial condition, helping Tennessee be the number one location in the Southeast for higher-quality jobs. And making certain that all Tennesseans, regardless of their circumstances, have an opportunity for higher-quality education. "

" I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people. "

" Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. "

" It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education. "

" We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. "

" Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all. "

" Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. "

" Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education. "

Jameela Jamil

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" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "

" 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

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" Every educated person is a future enemy. "

" I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees. "

" The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. "

" Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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" To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality. "

" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "

" 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. "