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" Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Aurelius

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" Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. "

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" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. "

" The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife. "

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" I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education. "

" No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. "

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" True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. "

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" Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions. "

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" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "

" 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. "

" I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. "

" The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. "

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" My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted. "

" I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace. "

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" You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation. "

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" Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes. "

" What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. "

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" 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. "

" The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. "

" Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. "

" Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. "

" An educated people can be easily governed. "

Frederick the Great

" An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. "

" On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. "

" Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. "

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" It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. "

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" There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education. "

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" If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. "

Maria Montessori

" One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education. "

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