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" I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. "

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" As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything. "

" Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone. "

Richard E. Robbins

" 'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering. "

" In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared. "

" Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. "

" 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. "

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

Theodore Roosevelt

" We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. "

" You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew. "

" There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors. "

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

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

Albert Einstein

" I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. "

Tallulah Bankhead

" Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. "

" I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. "

Shakuntala Devi

" Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace. "

Kailash Satyarthi

" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "

" He who laughs most, learns best. "

" An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. "

Alan K. Simpson

" A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity. "

Randi Weingarten

" The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. "

" In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? "

" With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' "

" My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties. "

" Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things. "

Moza bint Nasser

" If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. "

Malala Yousafzai

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

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Higher Education

" Education is hanging around until you've caught on. "

" We cannot learn men from books. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton