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" I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. "

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

W. E. B. Du Bois

" 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. "

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

" I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off. "

" I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward. "

" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "

" No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. "

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

" I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. "

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" There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford. "

" Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. "

" I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' "

Samuel L. Jackson

" My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. "

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

Munshi Premchand

" 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. "

" If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school. "

" The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife. "

Mary Wortley Montagu

" I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. "

" My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education. "

Edward P. Jones

" Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed. "

" Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future. "

Charles B. Rangel

" 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. "

" It is such a tricky transition between education and work. "

James William Middleton

" 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

" The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. "

Moza bint Nasser

" That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return. "

Gaston Caperton

" Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. "

" If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them. "

" I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. "

" If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. "