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" Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. "
John W. Gardner
Grow
Today
People
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" 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. "
Kathy Reichs
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" Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. "
John Dewey
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" Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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" Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. "
Maria Montessori
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Childhood
" The PHYSICAL Act gives our schools the flexibility they need to give physical education the attention it deserves in promoting our children's well-being. "
Marcia Fudge
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Education
" Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. "
Mark Twain
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" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Years
Born
Child
" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "
C. S. Lewis
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God
Nature
" 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. "
Yoko Ono
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Me
Mother
" In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. "
Maya Angelou
Ways
Education
Shaped
" Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. "
John W. Gardner
World
Back
Political
" Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. "
Joshua Reynolds
Teachers
Been
Purpose
" I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. "
William Glasser
Think
Knowledge
Education
" Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. "
Horace Mann
Men
Education
Human
" I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I Am
Education
Big
" If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? "
Maria Montessori
Same
Education
Future
" We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. "
Jim Jeffords
Education
Responsibility
Opportunity
" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "
Michel de Montaigne
Educated
Education
Reason
" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "
Michael Caine
Wisdom
Heart
My Own
" Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. "
Michael Morpurgo
Future
Children
Best
" The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. "
Thomas Piketty
Education
Always
Knowledge
" In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. "
Malala Yousafzai
School
Gift
Education
" A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. "
Vladimir Putin
Health
World
Quality
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Best
Education
Good
" Education, for me, has helped me in my music. "
Bob Livingston
Education
Helped
Me
" Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Who
Education
Pupil
" 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. "
Sam Harris
Children
Best
Will
" We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in all kinds of ways. And it's just not good for their cognitive - it's not good for their social development - I mean, that is incredible that kids in kindergarten... We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education, not moving into them. "
Jill Stein
Good
Education
Mean
" In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. "
Eva Longoria
Education
College
Work
" True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. "
Pauline Phillips
True
Education
Ignorance