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" 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. "
Gretchen Bleiler
Colorado
Us
Family
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" The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker. "
Miroslav Lajcak
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Education
Peace
" I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. "
Jonathan Kozol
Child
Need
Education
" There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. "
Paul Hawken
Incarceration
Difference
Education
" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "
Michelle Alexander
Doing
End
Power
" The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. "
George Santayana
Education
Experience
Out
" 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. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intelligence
Education
Character
" I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?' "
Erin Gruwell
Myself
Great
Good
" Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system. "
Doug Ducey
Government
Model
System
" Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position. "
Maria Montessori
Balance
Stand
Spiritual
" The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. "
James Baldwin
He
Become
Educated
" In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared. "
Charles Duhigg
Education
Police
New York
" The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. "
Drew Gilpin Faust
Unexpected
Education
Imagination
" I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth. "
Pratibha Patil
Education
Happiness
Technology
" I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need. "
Michelle Obama
Need
Education
Know
" Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents. "
Conrad Burns
Unique
Leadership
Education
" It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. "
William J. Clinton
Growth
Good
Opportunity
" Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. "
Robert Kiyosaki
Them
Important
Education
" Common Core is a big win for education. "
Bill Gates
Win
Education
Core
" What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. "
Joseph Addison
Sculpture
Soul
Education
" I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. "
Dave Heineman
Education
I Am
Proud
" Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education! "
Maria Montessori
Way
Children
Nature
" Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it. "
Shelley Berkley
Nobody
Pay
Want
" Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
People
Uplift
Work
" 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. "
Eleanor Roosevelt
People
Education
History
" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "
Abraham Lincoln
Best Friend
Best
Man
" Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. "
James A. Baldwin
You
White
Education
" Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. "
Bobby Scott
Education
Work
Training
" Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. "
Robert Frost
Life
Trouble
Education
" As long you are doing what you love and making decisions from the heart, you will be successful. "
Gretchen Bleiler
Decisions
Love
Heart
" Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. "
Maimonides
Teach
Man
Fish