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" It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion. "

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" When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. "

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" Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

" The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. "

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" Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. "

" America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt. "

" I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. "

" There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry. "

" Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. "

" Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. "

" I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities. "

" Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. "

" Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. "

" My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. "

" Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. "

" Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. "

" Good questions outrank easy answers. "

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

" Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. "

" There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. "

" If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. "

" Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. "

" As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. "

" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. "

" If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. "

" My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard. "

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" Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. "

" My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. "

" Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education. "

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" Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. "