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" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "

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" Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. "

" Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. "

" It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. "

" You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. "

" Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. "

" Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. "

" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "

Michel de Montaigne

" I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. "

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

" The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. "

" One of the most compelling arguments for encouraging the education of girls, particularly in developing countries, is this: Education enables jobs, jobs are a source of economic growth, and economic growth is a key to development and stability. "

" While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize. "

Sheldon Lee Glashow

" We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. "

" If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. "

Cornelius Vanderbilt

" Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve. "

" No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce? "

" One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits. "

Michelle Bachelet

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

Theodore Roosevelt

" You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison. "

" Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

" The willingness to learn new skills is very high. "

" The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. "

" The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available. "

" We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. "

" Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. "

" Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you. "