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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. "

" I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary. "

" Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. "

" The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it. "

" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "

" If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. "

" We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. "

Bertrand Russell

" The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. "

John F. Kennedy

" The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. "

Maria Montessori

" If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. "

" There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. "

" All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education. "

" Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. "

" I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "

" The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation. "

" Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. "

Albert Einstein

" I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. "