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" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

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" The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. "

" Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. "

" 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. "

" Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. "

" It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. "

" There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "

Ray Bradbury

" Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. "

" Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings. "

" 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. "

" The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. "

" A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. "

Charles Kuralt

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" I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. "

Ray Bradbury

" Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. "

" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "

" You could get an entire computer science education for free right now. "

" Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. "

" When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education. "

" Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. "

" I write screenplays in the middle of the night. "

Ray Bradbury

" A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. "

Ray Bradbury

" The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. "

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

" The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. "

" My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. "

" Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. "

" Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. "

" Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. "

" I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes. "

" I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. "

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

Sam Brownback

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