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" Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. "

Martin Seligman

Sports

Work

Marriage

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" Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. "

" I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. "

" 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. "

" Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category. "

" There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. "

" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "

" When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty. "

" Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Virtue

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" Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. "

" 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. "

" Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. "

" Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. "

" My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. "

" One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education. "

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

Think

Poverty

Education

" I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education. "

Sam Brownback

Gun

Think

" Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people. "

" My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. "

" The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. "

" How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival. "

" The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything. "

" The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. "

" My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard. "

Gretchen Bleiler

Colorado

Family

" 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. "

" Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general. "

" Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' "

" My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance. "

" Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. "

" 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. "

" The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. "

" Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing. "