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" I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. "

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" Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. "

" Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary. "

" Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. "

Martin Seligman

" The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when the moral sense of a nation produced judicial decisions, such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required difficult local adjustments. "

" Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message. "

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

" The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. "

John W. Gardner

" 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. "

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

" To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. "

Aleister Crowley

" Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category. "

" Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence. "

" I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. "

" I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it. "

" Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. "

Christine Gregoire

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

" Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society. "

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

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

Christine Gregoire

" Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. "

" 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

" To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. "

Munshi Premchand

" Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "

William Butler Yeats

" It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. "

" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "

" Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. "

Joshua Reynolds

" Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. "

David McCullough

" My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. "