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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. "

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" 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

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" 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. "

" Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels. "

" If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination. "

" Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. "

" My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. "

" Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "

" 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. "

" A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "

" 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. "

" The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. "

" I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' "

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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" The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. "

" There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. "

" There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education. "

" It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. "

" Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been. "

" I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. "

" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "

" Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. "

" The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. "

" You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. "

" The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination. "

" Without tact you can learn nothing. "

" We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. "

" Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. "

" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "

" Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed. "

" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "