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" Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. "

Elizabeth Blackwell

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

W. E. B. Du Bois

" I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. "

" My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day. "

Kenneth Frazier

" If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. "

Galileo Galilei

" We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. "

" Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. "

" In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. "

William J. Clinton

" When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. "

Desiderius Erasmus

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

" A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college. "

Raja Krishnamoorthi

" To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place. "

" Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce? "

" We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror. "

" People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. "

" We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. "

" I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray. It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work. "

" Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support. "

" I never let schooling interfere with my education. "

" There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming. "

" Your library is your paradise. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" 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. "

" We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. "

" Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece. "

Susan Polis Schutz

" We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. "

" Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that. "

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

" What people want is their basic needs. So I'm trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life. "

" Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes. "

Moza bint Nasser