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

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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" The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. "

" Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. "

" True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Education is the transmission of civilization. "

" I cannot live without books. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "

" I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level. "

" Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. "

" The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment. "

" If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. "

Maynard James Keenan

" I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. "

Guillermo del Toro

" 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. "

" Responsibility educates. "

Wendell Phillips

" 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

" In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way. "

Kenneth Frazier

" No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy. "

" A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. "

" Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports. "

" People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. "

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

" Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included. "

" 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. "

" Nine tenths of education is encouragement. "

" 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. "

James A. Baldwin

" As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign. "

" 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 you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. "