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" Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations. "

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" I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. "

Felix Bloch

Youth

Education

I Am

" The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations. "

" The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. "

" Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. "

" A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. "

" It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. "

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

" Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Time

Here

Dare

" Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. "

" We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind. "

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

" Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future. "

" A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. "

" Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. "

" I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. "

" I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. "

" If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. "

" The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. "

" I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. "

" Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. "

" Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum. "

" The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. "

" Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it. "

" I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer. "

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

" The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. "

" My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education. "

" Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. "

Ryan White

Discrimination

Education

" Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. "

" 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. "