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" One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree. "

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" Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling. "

Henrique Capriles Radonski

" There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors. "

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" The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. "

" I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. "

Albert Einstein

" It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. "

Public Education

" Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country. "

" We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. "

" In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. "

" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "

Maria Montessori

" There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body. You cannot gain knowledge just by mugging books, but you can definitely learn things from your practical experiences. "

" In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions. "

" 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. "

" Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities. "

" When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. "

" Education is the foundation upon which we build our future. "

Christine Gregoire

" Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things. "

Moza bint Nasser

" During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. "

Black And White

" If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. "

Sargent Shriver

" In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. "

" Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. "

" 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

" Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education. "

" The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to. "

" I am a part of everything that I have read. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. "