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" My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. "

Robert M. Hutchins

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" Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. "

" Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question. "

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" 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

" 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. "

" Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. "

" Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. "

William Glasser

" People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. "

" The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. "

" A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. "

" Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. "

" Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems. "

" Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing. "

Mother Angelica

" In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way. "

Kenneth Frazier

" I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. "

Sandra Day O'Connor

" Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society. "

" A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred. "

Randi Weingarten

" Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations. "

" The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things. "

" Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. "

" To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. "

" Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other. "

" Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.' "

" 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

" Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. "

" My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day. "

Kenneth Frazier

" If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens. "

" Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system. "