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

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" I cannot live without books. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. "

" Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. "

John F. Kennedy

" Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. "

Nicholas Kristof

" Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. "

" Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. "

Shakuntala Devi

" The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. "

Alphonso Jackson

" Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "

" Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. "

" 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. "

" I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education. "

" 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. "

" You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. "

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

Albert Einstein

" Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. "

" It is better to learn late than never. "

Publilius Syrus

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

Munshi Premchand

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

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

" I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way. "

" Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. "

" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

" As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought. "

" We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools. "

" I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free. "

Peter Diamandis

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. "

David Rockefeller

" Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement. "

" Read in order to live. "

Gustave Flaubert