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" Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. "

Bertrand Russell

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" If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education. "

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" Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for. "

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" During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. "

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" Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. "

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" How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. "

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" To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. "

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