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" Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. "

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" An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. "

Alan K. Simpson

" You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. "

" 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. "

" I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages? "

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" The PHYSICAL Act gives our schools the flexibility they need to give physical education the attention it deserves in promoting our children's well-being. "

" The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. "

Albert Einstein

" The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. "

" Don't let schooling interfere with your education. "

" If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. "

Oscar Hammerstein II

" I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities. "

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" The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. "

David Rockefeller

" The only real failure in life is one not learned from. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

" 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. "

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" Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. "

Maria Montessori

" Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education. "

" While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. "

" Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. "

" I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college. "

Debbie Stabenow

" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. "

Herbert Spencer

" 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. "

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

" No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that. "

" When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference. "

Mark Zuckerberg

" With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' "

" All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education. "

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" My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. "